🚀 go-pugleaf

There are _tons_ of variables involved.  Posts can be for:
	-- where are docs?
	-- language is confusing
	-- what's the language standard?
	-- what's a good algorithm for...
	-- where can I find info on...
and several others.

Then you must take into account:
	-- how popular the language is
	-- can people who use that language easily get to usenet
		(many times unix vs. other platform)
	-- the language is so easy no one has questions
	-- people use the FAQ and it is useful
	-- the language has been around forever
	-- the language is brand new
	-- the language's standard is ill-defined/changing
	-- the number of different platforms supported by the language
	-- the robustness of compilers/interpreters for the language
	-- development tools available for the language

and probably (as Carl Sagan would say) "billions and billions of other
pieces of fluff, in the ever expanding cosmos that is the usenet."

Statistics can be made to tell pretty much any story you want.

The only thing the list tells us definitively (assuming the numbers were
collected properly) is "there were/are x articles posted to group y."

Let's not try to read any further into it.  It's an interesting count,
but there are too many variables involved to use these numbers for
anything else.

(It's kind of like saying "if I don't find many errors in a code review,
the review did not do its job."  What if the code was good, and there
were not many errors?  What if multiple errors of the same kind were
only reported once?  What about code size?  What abou code complexity?
What about anything else?   Eeeeeeekkkkkk!)

-- Scott


JD Venter wrote:
> 
> I think most of the postings are because of problems that programmers
> experience. Hence, the lower the score, the better. I prefer my group to
> be somewhere in the middle.
> 
> I have missed the numbers somehow. Can somebody please mail them to me or
> post them again.
> 
> Thank you

-- 
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