Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Danno wrote: Xah Lee wrote: This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Wow,

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Holden
Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Danno
Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org

Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Xah Lee (on 2006-09-27 05:03): This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. ... http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted with new 'battlefield language',

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 9/27/06, Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spoke Xah Lee (on 2006-09-27 05:03): This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. ... http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html When the Samurai of medieval

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Jon Ribbens
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments about languages :) I just read PHP as a language is rather dry and business-like, and fell off my chair. --

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread James Stroud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread cartercc
I, too, attempt to track the popularity of computer languages, but I like to look at the job boards. My theory is that the number of employers looking for particular skills indicates the relative popularity of the language. This is a somewhat crude measure, particularly with Microsoft technologies

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Sherm Pendley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments Such things are all Xah does. Look at the distribution list for this message - of what possible use is cross-posting something

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Joe Marshall
Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. Suggestions: Provide

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also get a rough measure ot the popularity of web scripting languages from an analysis of the URLs. The last time I did this was in 2003, and as I recall, these were the results: PHP 30% and increasing Perl 28% and falling ASP 25% and falling fast ColdFusion

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Holden
Joe Marshall wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Mattern
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab wrote: When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, early Shotguns :D. Your mastery of the history of firearms overwhelms me. -- Christopher Mattern Which one you figure tracked

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Stefan Scholl
In comp.lang.lisp Jon Ribbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments about languages :) I just read PHP as a language is rather dry and

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread John Bailo
Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. The only problem being that in the last five years, there are now a multiplicity of options for discussing any

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Mladen Adamovic
There is one index at : http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm It isn't much reliable, put still I think it is a bit reliable. Also, you might use number of open source projects at Sourceforge for the given language for giving assumptions, or number of job openings at Monster, i.e. -- Mladen

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread cartercc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the site I'm working on, you'd see a URL like http://www.whatever.com/login or http://www.whatever.com/boards?id=131 -- how would you count them? Such (extensionless) URLs are far more common in the Python, Ruby, and Java world in my experience than the PHP, Perl,

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Ari Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think you can use any measure as an accurate yardstick, but rather as an impressionistic canvas. Exactly. You can't measure popularity without defining the term. Xah Lee appears to define popularity based on the number of posts made in a given language's

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread James Stroud
Sherm Pendley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments Such things are all Xah does. Look at the distribution list for this message - of what possible use

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread semiopen
John Bailo wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. The only problem being that in the last five years, there are now a multiplicity of options

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 27/9/2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also get a rough measure ot the popularity of web scripting languages from an analysis of the URLs. The last time I did this was in 2003, and as I recall, these were the results: PHP 30% and increasing Perl 28% and falling ASP

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Tagore Smith
Stefan Scholl wrote: In comp.lang.lisp Jon Ribbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments about languages :) I just read PHP as a

Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-26 Thread Xah Lee
Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html