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Article #22Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
From: Paul. Dubois
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:01
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:01
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At a recent Python workshop we discussed the fact that since Python has a number of mailing lists (called SIGS, such as Matrix-SIG, GUI-SIG, etc.) the traffic in comp.lang.python is lower. This is thought to be a good thing, in general, but someone did raise the possibility that people would judge the interest in the language based on newsgroup counts. Newsgroup counts would be correlated, positively or negatively, with the number of newbies, number of users, number of people having homework in that language, number of subtle points in the language, number of design flaws in the language, presence or abscence of a user who is a vexaxious litigant or net equivalent, external mailing lists, difficulty of porting, number of platforms supported, number of journals devoted to it, etc. I don't see that the raw numbers tell you much. There are several groups I would be interested in but don't read due to signal/noise problems. BTW, Python and Eiffel are not lisp-family languages. -- Paul F. Dubois, L-472 (510)-422-5426 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory FAX (510)-423-9969 Livermore, CA 94550 dubois1@llnl.gov Consulting: PaulDubois@aol.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!usenet From: "Paul. Dubois" <dubois1@llnl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.postscript,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:01:52 -0800 Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Distribution: inet Message-ID: <30D84180.4B23@llnl.gov> References: <4at4t0$j5j@garden.csc.calpoly.edu> <4b2qak$6t6@thales.nmia.com> <4b8cf3$rot@grovel.iafrica.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kristen.llnl.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m)