Greetings.
On 25 Aug 2016, at 17:10, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote:
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/?keyword=racket&start=20071014&end=20150831&smoothing=10 (It’s also a bit sobering to see what happened to Haskell)
That's interesting, but what's happened to Haskell in that graph might be deceptive. I tried looking at the terms racket, haskell, ocaml, perl, swift and python, and _all_ of them except 'racket' and 'swift' go down in a roughly exponential way. That's curious for 'haskell' and 'ocaml', reassuring for 'perl' (die, Perl, die!), but not really believable for 'python', which I added as a language that I would expect to be fairly level in popularity in those years.
What this looks consistent with -- given that the vertical axis is a fraction not absolute -- is that these terms have stayed roughly constant in popularity, but the rest of Reddit has grown exponentially, talking about stuff _other than_ programming languages (exotic though such a conversation would be). Is that plausible? (I'm not a Reddit habitué).
If so, that means that the growth in 'racket', and more so with the more predictable growth in 'swift', is all the more impressive.
All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
