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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4b0becf481d4760 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.news-service.com!post.news-service.com!news1.surfino.com!not-for-mail Message-Id: <25198223.4en76vp9bt@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Programming language popularity ranking Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Reply-To: martin@krischik.com Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:48:19 +0100 References: <5324210.os4TksXWBb@linux1.krischik.com> Organization: None User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@surfino.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.169.148.166 (83.169.148.166) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:00:08 +0100 X-Trace: 9e4dd4209c308f60c310323660 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8203 Date: 2005-02-09T08:48:19+01:00 List-Id: Manuel G. R. wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: >> Jeffrey Carter wrote: >> >>>What can we make of this site's objectivity? >>> >>>"February Headline: Fourth increase in a row for both Java and C#". >> >> >>>Java shows a decrease of 4.22%, and both Java and C#'s positions have >>>dropped. >> >> >> "We offer out-of-the-box solutions for the programming languages C, C++, >> C# and Java." Look closely: "C, C++, C# and Java." not "Java, C, C++ and C#." Maybe they changed the algorithm to fit there buisiness aim. >> What do you expect. But since they have a very primitive algorithm I >> decided to add "Ada programming" to my signature. > > Me too. > > Let's look at the graphic. What did they do in Mar-04? A change in the > algorithm, I guess, but the former percentages look more confident. Prehaps is't that strange "-tv". I removes any site with a hit on "tv". +"Ada programming" 52.000 +"Ada programming" -tv 46,800 Impact 10% +"ABAP programming" 43,400 +"ABAP programming" -tv 42,300 Impact 2.5% +"C programming" 1,580,000 +"C programming" -tv 1,480,000 Impact 6,3% Yet another mytery solved. Remeber the green and red arrows are calculated over the year not the month! Never trust a statistic you have not falseified yourself. Of corse this has been a google search only. To see the hole picture one need to make searches on MSN, Yahoo and google groups. But I did make little test on +tv - there are many legitimate sites having both programming and tv. The real problem is that we did such a check and now how cheaty the stats are - but the seminformed do not. I for one will drop them a mail. BTW: Ada has such a hard hit because of the use of Ada in tv satelites and tv satelite receivers. Pages on that subjecte are not counted. And I will point that out to them - if it helps I don't know. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com