Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017
by weberc2 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:12PM
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Right, the SO value is approximately the product of popularity and difficulty; the GH value is approximately popularity, so if you difficulty is approximately SO/GH.
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Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017
by kodfodrasz on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:30PM
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If this would be true, then "XML" and ASP would be the hardest languages. Also this would suggest that TeX for example is simpler to use than Python or Ruby.
I do not think this stands.
Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017
by weberc2 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:27PM
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Hence, "approximation". In particular, XML isn't a programming language, so questions about it are more likely to pertain to writing parsers and the like. TeX users may well have other sources for answering their questions. The approximation is very rough, but there is clearly a signal in the noise.