[twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-02 Thread François Piette
[Off Topic] You can vote for your favorite language (I hope it is Delphi but you can vote for anything). The website http://code2013.herokuapp.com/ has a nice statistic about language used in 2013. You can cast your vote by sending a tweet with hashtag #code2013 followed the name of your fav

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-02 Thread Arno Garrels
- Original Message - From: "François Piette" To: "'ICS support mailing'" Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 6:29 PM Subject: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013 > [Off Topic] > > > > You can vote for your favorite languag

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-02 Thread François Piette
>> You can vote for your favorite language (I hope it is Delphi but you can >> vote for anything). >I do not understand this page. How do you vote? Just by a click on the image? >Just from the name I'd prefer "pogoscript", whatsoever that is ;) Well, I said how to vote: "You can cast your vote by

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-03 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> Well, I said how to vote: "You can cast your vote by sending a > tweet So it's effectively a survey of Twitter followers about their favourite language, excluding the many people who don't use Twitter If they wanted a properly representative survey, there would be several voting methods.

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-03 Thread François Piette
>> Well, I said how to vote: "You can cast your vote by sending a tweet > So it's effectively a survey of Twitter followers about their favourite language, > excluding the many people who don't use Twitter Indeed. As a mitigating factor, most people by today have a twitter account. > If they

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-03 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> Is the relative number of language users different among those > having a > tweeter account and the others? I don't think so. So the result IS > representative. Older people often don't have the time or inclination to keep up with the trends our children follow. I've been using the same socia

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

2014-01-03 Thread Darin McGee
I could not agree with you more. -Original Message- From: TWSocket [mailto:twsocket-boun...@lists.elists.org] On Behalf Of Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 3:07 AM To: twsocket@lists.elists.org Subject: Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on