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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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Martin wrote:
> On Jul 21, 5:10 pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>> Andrea Taverna wrote:
>> > On 21 Lug, 14:25, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>> >> I am very surprised at the list of languages you arrived at!
>> >> FreePascal, Eiffel and Modula-3 are all essentially dead.
>>
>> > I don't think so.
>>
>> F# is still pretty obscure so look at this trend of FreePascal vs F# by
>> Google searches:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=freepascal%2Cf%23
> 
> Unfortunately that picks up a lot of swear-word replacements, as in
> "what the f#@$!" and for some reason a heck of a lot of asian
> financial pages!!!

Before 2004, Google Trends registered nothing for F#. If you look at the
trend, it correlates very strongly with F# releases and major
announcements. It is an accurate measure of people searching for the F#
programming language.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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