Re: Programming language popularity

[Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

On Apr 3, 2:21 pm, an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
wrote:
> Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> writes:
> >On Apr 3, 10:46=A0am, "Martin Krischik" <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
> >wrote:
> >> Am 02.04.2010, 19:36 Uhr, schrieb Anton Ertl =A0
> >> <an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>:
>
> >> > About once per year I post some data on programming language
> >> > popularity, based on the number of postings in the comp.lang.* groups.
> >> > I just took another sample, and below you can find the results, as
> >> > well as some older results. =A0For more results and the data, on which
> >> > they are based, see
> >> > <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/>.
> ...
> >Perhaps someone could write a 'random question' generator (in Ada of
> >course!) and have it send post to c.l.a. once an hour or so...it could
> >gradually increase the frequency of posts over the months, so giving
> >the impression that Ada is getting more popular over time.
>
> That is addressed in the web page linked-to above:
>
> |Please don't use this page as an excuse to post noise to the groups
> |for your favourite programming language. That would damage the group,
> |and therefore eventually reduce the number of postings in the group.
>
> Of course, for, e.g., comp.lang.dylan there is not much left to
> damage, but c.l.ada and c.l.forth are in a much better position.  And
> even comp.lang.beta and comp.lang.asm370 seem to have a minor revival.
>
> Of course you could plan to spam so much that you make up for or even
> exceed the loss, but I doubt that looking good at these statistics is
> so valuable that someone would want to destroy a working community
> communication medium.  Also, you might not even have success with such
> a plan; my news server employs Cleanfeed to filter out spam, and is
> quite effective at that, so your spam might not even show up in my
> statistics (ok, maybe your spam generator will outwit Cleanfeed (after
> all, the spam generator is written in Ada and Cleanfeed in Perl:-)).
>
> - anton
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