On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Robert Fischer < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there any kind of reasonable language adoption metric out there? I'm > not sure how one might > measure that, but it's hard to tell which languages have more mindshare -- > get different people with > different focuses together, and they seem to have wildly different guesses. While you could use a number of different measures to help gauge this (number of attendees at language-specific conferences, number of technical books published, search query rates on various sites, various survey results, and many, many more) - this is a highly subjective measurement, and any group which is invested in the question is going to show huge selection bias. That's even supposing that we all had the same idea of what it means for a language to be "adopted" by a user, and leaving aside the problem that there's a good chance that the group of language users who are not going to show up on any of those metrics will in many cases dwarf the population that does show up. I'm not sure that after the biases of the selection group, method and questioner were taken into account that there would be any meaningful signal left. What interests you about the question? Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
