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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by jasonlotito on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:19AM (#4992907)
First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by maratd on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:28AM (#4992930)
> One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.

I would think one of the key metrics in determining popularity would be popularity ...

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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by jasonlotito on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @02:26PM (#4993592)
It is. I'd think that's fairly clear and obvious from the languages they were comparing.
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by Drakim on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:34AM (#4992949)
Wouldn't a language that goes from 0 users to 1 user within this year easily win this sort of measurement?
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by S4M on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:53AM (#4993008)
They must be taking only established languages. Otherwise Clojure, Scala or Go would probably beat them all in term of growth.
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by pcarbonn on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @12:00PM (#4993036)
Not really. The language of year is the one with the largest growth of "popularity share". C# has gone from 8.2% to 10.5% this year, while your presumed language would go from 0% to 0.0000001 % : not a big increase, really.
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by jQueryIsAwesome on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:40AM (#4992966)
Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1102/
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by gtani on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @02:26PM (#4993595)
oblig. Zed shaw

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by pohl on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:33AM (#4992945)
I find it hard to believe that some newer, smaller language communities did not have a higher growth rate.
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Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade by jasonlotito on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @02:24PM (#4993582)
"One of," not "only."
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