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

Umm.. would this possibly suggest which languages people have the most 
problems with?  
	Without further breaking down these numbers into subcategories of message 
content (ie bugs, 'learning the language', exchanging information etc..) the 
stats are fairly meaningless.  Some extremely popular languages are not 
represented at all here (ie RPG) while others are underepresented (ie COBOL) 
presumably because those who program in those languages tend not to use the 
internet as much as PC users (hence VB being #1).

:>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.
:>
:>     1   73,453   basic.visual
:>     2   71,298   c++
:>     3   55,148   c
:>     4   43,430   pascal
:>     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
:>   ----------------------------
:>