Re: Programming language popularity

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

On Apr 3, 10:46 am, "Martin Krischik" <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Am 02.04.2010, 19:36 Uhr, schrieb Anton Ertl  
> <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.  For more results and the data, on which
> > they are based, see
> > <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/>.
>
> Am 03.04.2010, 11:06 Uhr, schrieb Rod Pemberton <do_not_h...@havenone.cmm>:
>
> > Look how far Python for Mar 2010 is down that list compared to Ertl's for
> > Apr 2010.  Forth doesn't even make the top 20 in Tiobe rank.  It comes  
> > in as
> > number 37, after LOGO...  Yes, you read that correctly, after LOGO.  I
> > suspect both of these sampling methods are flawed, although Tiobe results
> > appear far more realistic to me.
>
> Tiobe sells services for curly braced languages.  So I am not all that  
> convinced about Tiobe - especialy after they removed usenet in favour of  
> youtube. I can understand adding an addition source - but removing an  
> existing source for which all the scripts are already written. That sounds  
> like fine tuning the statistic so the right result is reported.
>
> At comp.lang.ada we recently did our own stat which too comes to different  
> result:http://lang-index.sourceforge.netusing similar tests as Tiobe.
>
> Martin
> --
> Martin Krischik

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.

-- Martin