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Re:TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007 by bootload on Tuesday February 05, 2008 @08:01PM (#110028)
"... Even hackers like to have handy libs, and those are more likely to exist for more things, the more people use the language. ..."

That could explain the popularity of 'c'. Something written in 'c' can be used just about everywhere. One of the reasons I despise Java & C#. Not because they are bad languages. Because they don't share very well.

"... That said, this is old news in any case, and my own site, http://www.langpop.com does a better job of aggregating more data sources:-) ..."

Looks like your have been thinking about this a lot deeper. Do you supply the data? One other minor quibble the x-axes graph titles are hard to read. What graphing lib are you using?

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Re:TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007 by davidw on Tuesday February 05, 2008 @08:10PM (#110033)
> Looks like your have been thinking about this a lot deeper

I'm fascinated by it:

http://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economics...

http://www.welton.it/articles/scalable_systems.html

I get the data from Yahoo search (the open API is better than Google's, which doesn't exist any more) and direct scraping in some cases.

The graphing lib is Plotr, and yeah, it's getting too scrunched up, and I need to add some history functions, because I have a few months of data. Not much has really changed, but still, it's nice to show it.

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