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From: Roy Gardiner <gardinerr@dcslambert.agw.bt.co.uk>
Subject: language wars (results 13 September) last posting
Date: 1996/09/13
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The Language Preference Grid (Friday 13th September 1996)
               1   2   3   4
|------------|---|---|---|---|
| Ada        | 17| 3 | 1 | 0 |
| apl        | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C          | 9 | 14| 7 | 6 |
| perl       | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| C++        | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Rexx       | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| smalltalk  | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ada-95     | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| pascal     | 3 | 16| 7 | 9 |
| PL/I       | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| fortran    | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | (no level specified)
| J          | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| fortran-90 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| python     | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Algol 68   | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| icon       | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| scheme     | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Assembler  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | (type not stated)
| ObjectRexx | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| fortran-77 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ada-83     | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| VB         | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| modula-2   | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| turing     | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forth      | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|------------|---|---|---|---|
| prolog     | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| awk        | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| SNOBOL     | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| lisp       | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| bourne shell 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| modula-3   | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| modula     | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| X86 BAL    | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| ML         | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | (is this the same as ML/1?)
| MATLAB     | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Spitbol    | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| cybil      | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| cms pipelines  | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| bertrand   | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
|------------|---|---|---|---|
| X80 BAL    | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| ML/1       | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| BASIC      | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| orwell     | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bliss      | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pick basic | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| NetRexx    | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| simula     | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| haskel     | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| algol-60   | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| COBOL      | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| tcl/tk     | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| java       | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| korn shell | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| HyperTalk  | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|------------|---|---|---|---|
| postScript | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| IDL        | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Scan       | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| KSH        | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| occam      | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ASM /360   | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| S+         | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Clipper    | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MC68009ASM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SETL       | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DCL        | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| NewtonScript 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

96 responses in all.

One person voted for a language they invented; I could not disallow it 
because it was not their first language

I don't suppose much can be concluded. What surprised me was:

1) How cleanly Ada (not ada, as one correspondent corrected me) won it; 
not only by the number of 1st place votes (especially if you include 
dialects - votes for Ada95 and Ada83 were NOT included in the Ada list), 
but by how few votes were for 2nd or lower place.
2) What an incredible variety of languages are out there.

Some people voted (unprompted) for least favourite:

The Language (least favourite) Grid 
               1   2   3   4
|------------|---|---|---|---|
| C++        | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C          | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VB         | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BASIC      | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| COBOL      | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| pascal     | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Forth      | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| X86 BAL    | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

and gave little comments.

-- I try to stay above C level,  I get C sick.

No more votes, please. Interesting comments to newsgroup(s).

Roy Gardiner