Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: DBasics Software Company
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 23:10

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dstubbs@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Dan Stubbs) wrote:

>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. The java group has been moving
>up the list rather rapidly, and is undoubtedly in 11th place by now.


Interesting statistics there!   We started a Programming Wide Internet
Site just under a month ago.  We solicited for members in all the
newsgoups and are now getting about 20 new members daily.  Here's
the breakdown as of  as of December 16, 1995 

 Members                          344
 ----------------------------------------------
 Language                 Subscribed
 ----------------------------------------------
 HTML                        147
 C Languages             122
 CGI                            111
 Perl                            109
 Java                          102
 Visual Basic                 76
 Clipper                         89
 SQL                             58
 Usenet                         49
 Delphi                          45
 Pascal                          41
 FoxPro                         40
 Assembly                     39
 dBase                          34
 Oracle                          33
 Excel                           30
 Lotus                           28
 Basic                           28
 Paradox                       25
 Fortran                         17
 Visual Object               16
 COBOL                        16
 Benchmarks                 11
 FiveWin                         7
 Progress                        6
 Informix                          6
 Ingres                            3
 Forth                              3
 ADA                               2
 VRML                            2
 TCl                                 2

It's not surprising to see the Web Programming Languages ranking at
the top.  And you were right about Java Group.

Craig David Horton
DBasics Software Company
http:\\pacificnet.net\~dbasics\users_group

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