Re: Language Popularity

2010-10-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday 29 October 2010 03:49:32 Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 10/28/2010 04:45 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > > Todd VanderVeen wrote: > >> http://langpop.com/ > >> > > Interesting that D comes first on Reddit with a reasonably > > > > comfortable margin ;) > > It's how they performed the

Re: Language Popularity

2010-10-29 Thread Jeff Nowakowski
On 10/28/2010 04:45 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: Todd VanderVeen wrote: http://langpop.com/ Interesting that D comes first on Reddit with a reasonably comfortable margin ;) It's how they performed the search. These stats are pure crap, because "D" matches tons of miscellaneous stuf

Re: Language Popularity

2010-10-28 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Todd VanderVeen wrote: > http://langpop.com/ Interesting that D comes first on Reddit with a reasonably comfortable margin ;) Jerome -- mailto:jeber...@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeber...@jabber.fr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Language Popularity

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Alexander
On 28/10/10 8:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Todd VanderVeen wrote: With regard to D, there seems to significant potential market/mind share to be had. There is the obvious space held by C and C++, but also in other areas where the specialized features of the other languages are not required. I als

Re: Language Popularity

2010-10-28 Thread Walter Bright
Todd VanderVeen wrote: With regard to D, there seems to significant potential market/mind share to be had. There is the obvious space held by C and C++, but also in other areas where the specialized features of the other languages are not required. I also find the surge in interest in Objective-C

Language Popularity

2010-10-28 Thread Todd VanderVeen
I am moving this answer to a new post, as my intent was not to hijack the lexer thread. Tiobe and others have tried to determine language popularity by various means. They are drawing inferences where no definitive data set exists. There is no reason to treat these numbers as scientific results