I think they would consider R a "Domain Specific Language" which they appear to not categorize. NetLogo, Processing, SCSS, Shockwave, AppleScript, Groovy etc, for example are not included.
Fascinating that Cobal ranks around the same as Fortran. Weird 'cause Fortran is included in all the mathematics bundles. I don't think they should separate C and C++ .. they really are merged at this point. Interesting trends that seem to agree with the hacker elite: - Javascript much higher than a few years ago. Damn. I was hoping we'd have it for ourselves for a while. - Ruby far less popular than earlier, likely due to much better web frameworks now. - The /. stats will be useful unless they are clever about "LangX .. sucks" not being +1 - Clearly Apple should do something about Objective C .. nifty as it is in some ways, it simply does not appeal to "high level language" folks without GC. Only folks forced to use it do so. -- Owen On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Brent Auble <br...@auble.net> wrote: > One language missing from that site is R (understandably since it's really > tough to search accurately for a single letter, although they seem to do it > for C and D...) It's also tough because most R package development is done > on the R-Forge site or just uploaded to CRAN, so there's no good way to do > comparative popularity. LangPop admits that it's hard for them to get > useful data on R: > http://groups.google.com/group/langpop/browse_thread/thread/dbcff0fb63552ebf# > > However, Bob Muenchen (r4stats.com) has done his own analysis of the > popularity of R: http://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/popularity > > Brent > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:39 PM > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum > > Nice. Thanks, Tom. > > --Doug > > -- > Doug Roberts > drobe...@rti.org > d...@parrot-farm.net > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > > The Top 10 Programming Languages They're mostly ones you'd expect'and then > there's Lua > http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 > > -tj > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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