Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by cellis on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @05:53PM
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>> I know 8 out of the top 10 languages. Not bad.
dude, come on. I think most people here could say that.
Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @06:35PM
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Yeah that sounded bad. Sorry about that. I'm just happy I've got that many nailed. I don't think I'm going to do the other two. Instead, I'm moving down to some of the more interesting ones.
Do you really think most readers have 8 languages under their belt, with real, live, production systems written in them? It would be interesting to put on an AskYC question. I don't know the answer one way or another. For some reason I kind of thought most of the readers, while super hot on the technology, were newer to the party than that.
Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by cellis on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @07:27PM
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right on. Its no problem.
Perhaps I was mistaken. I took your saying "I know" to mean "I have coded in each of these languages and could do something in each if I had to", instead of "I would be comfortable in a programming environment with any of these languages".
My bad.
btw I actually am trying out SICP right now, despite my C# leanings.
Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @05:53AM
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Looks awesome! If I wasn't trying to pick up OCaml and F# right now I'd jump on it -- one of the problems I'm facing is a lack of good texts. Would be very interested in your opinion of the book and Lisp, especially coming from a C# (like me) background.
Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by cellis on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @06:02PM
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Yeah. I definitely will. I am also giving PLINQ A try. This, all because I am finally realizing that concurrency is the future.
Re:Programming Language Popularity Statistics
by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @06:57PM
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Paralellism is the future. That means, to some degree, functional apps.
Of course, I'm also learning the language that's on the bottom of the list. Go Ocaml!
Nice work. It was especially interesting to was Haskell jump out of the back of the pack to #2 when moving to a more academic crowd.
I'm not sure the data has any meaning at all in the real world. In a similar vein, if you did this same exercise for presidential candidates Ron Paul is likely to look a lot better than his poll numbers show. There is a difference between what people talk about and what people do. You can only take implicit data so far. But it certainly makes for some nice graphs to add to a powerpoint deck, and I'd love to see trend information.