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In article <4at4t0$j5j@garden.csc.calpoly.edu> dstubbs@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Dan Stubbs) writes:

   The following table shows the number of posts to the "top 20" groups in
   comp.lang.*. Note that these numbers reflect adding up the posts for
   the various pascal and basic.visual groups.

It puzzles me why you added up the pascal and basic.visual groups but not
the lisp groups.  Eiffel, python, lisp and scheme are all lisp-family
languages (as is dylan, which did not make your list).  Come to think of
it, CLOS is a standard extension of Common Lisp, but you did not include
the comp.lang.clos in the comp.lang.lisp tally, or did you?

If the lisp family languages from your list were added up, your resulting
list would look like:

	1   73,453   basic.visual
	2   71,298   c++
	3   55,148   c
	4   43,430   pascal
       -5-  20,266   lisp-family    (5412 + 5380 + 5212 + 4262 = 20266)
	5   19,758   tcl
      ----------------------------
	6   16,033   ada
	7   15,419   perl
	8   15,132   smalltalk
	9   14,390   asm.x86
       10   13,039   fortran
      ----------------------------
       11   10,438   postscript
       12   10,388   java
       13    8,758   clipper
       14    7,310   forth
       15    6,832   cobol
      ----------------------------
       16    6,012   rexx
       17    5,412   eiffel
       18    5,380   python
       19    5,212   lisp
       20    4,262   scheme
      ----------------------------

So just what point were you trying to make with your comparison, anyway?
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