John Bailo wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > Computer Language Popularity Trend > > > > This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as > > indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. > > The only problem being that in the last five years, there are now a > multiplicity of options for discussing any of these languages, in places > that are not Usenet. > > For example, Sun hosts a variety of bulletin boards on its java.net > site. Likewise Microsoft has it's "communities". > > My guess is that if you included all the new avenues the other languages > would have growth curves about the same shape as for LISP. > Good point - especially given the sheer volume of the microsoft groups. For example, I follow microsoft.public.excel.programming (and thus have been quite interested in the discussion in fa.haskell recently about finding a way for VBA to call Haskell functions) regularly and it almost always has hundreds of posts a day - most of them business-like discussions of code. Few of the traditional comp groups can boast of such volume - so any attempt to measure an ill-defined popularity by focusing on them will be skewed.
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