From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.50.84 with SMTP id y81mr34567275ywy.33.1469795840661; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 05:37:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.13.51 with SMTP id 48mr2646213oti.7.1469795840615; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 05:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!c52no5720058qte.1!news-out.google.com!d130ni18178ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no5683604ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 05:37:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <84d258dc-b60d-4a49-9af4-27dd6f3e5f5f@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.111.146.161; posting-account=Ies7ywoAAACcdHZMiIRy0M84lcJvfxwg NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.111.146.161 References: <31c22983-150c-4dab-abba-588e15f75914@googlegroups.com> <84d258dc-b60d-4a49-9af4-27dd6f3e5f5f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1703ca9a-2665-4435-9564-4abd8a77ebe9@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings From: brbarkstrom@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:37:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Received-Bytes: 1953 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1525792593 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31219 Date: 2016-07-29T05:37:20-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 2:41:07 AM UTC-4, Jerry wrote: > Try setting sliders related to people seeking help--Google and both Stack Overflows, for example--to zero, and Ada moves up a lot. One other factor may be of interest in thinking about these ratings: the importance of libraries for current ways people build software. The tendency appears to be to select standard libraries and hope they remain stable enough to serve over a reasonable length of time. Once people get used to using this approach, they don't write as much code themselves - they just figure out how to hook in a library to do the work. I suppose you could call it the "cut and paste" approach to developing software. Bruce B.