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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,fb1b2917558b21ef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 103376,8966a1b579ddb182 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid2832dde05d,gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Programming language popularity Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3d4f1ab2-fa62-478b-bcf6-35c642c11ef0@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> References: <2010Apr2.193617@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <32e4e235-6e74-4914-b0fa-92dec3279b51@5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <607326ff-0e15-4e54-a179-7cba46758cf2@r1g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <2010Apr3.152155@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.129.170.57 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1270308818 11548 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2010 15:33:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.129.170.57; posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.0.10, Ant.com Toolbar 1.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.forth:17356 comp.lang.ada:10816 Date: 2010-04-03T08:33:37-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 3, 2:21=A0pm, an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote: > Martin writes: > >On Apr 3, 10:46=3DA0am, "Martin Krischik" > >wrote: > >> Am 02.04.2010, 19:36 Uhr, schrieb Anton Ertl =3DA0 > >> : > > >> > About once per year I post some data on programming language > >> > popularity, based on the number of postings in the comp.lang.* group= s. > >> > I just took another sample, and below you can find the results, as > >> > well as some older results. =3DA0For more results and the data, on w= hich > >> > they are based, see > >> > . > ... > >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. =A0And > 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. =A0Also, 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 > -- > M. Anton Ertl =A0http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html > comp.lang.forth FAQs:http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html > =A0 =A0 =A0New standard:http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html > =A0 =A0EuroForth 2009:http://www.euroforth.org/ef09/ lolz :-)