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

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From: William Burrow
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:57
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Followup-To: 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,misc.test,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.postscript,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.forth
References: <4at4t0$j5j@garden.csc.calpoly.edu> <4b0vt6$24k@warp.ipacific.net.au> <u191k7meja.fsf@njal.ml.csiro.au> <4bp72t$vth@zippy.cais.net>
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Charles Packer (packer@cais.cais.com) wrote:
: In article <u191k7meja.fsf@njal.ml.csiro.au>,
: Randall Gray <gray@njal.ml.csiro.au> wrote:
: >propensity of the language towards bugginess.  Probably related to
: >penetration of the language into university/college/school courses.

: That's probably it...

: In fact, I would take issue with those who declare that these are
: worthless statistics unless you have more information about the
: nature of postings about the languages listed.

Ah, yes, the everybody must be ignorant because I have some meaningless 
number mangling with the log scales that shows something argument.
Anything to preserve this thread another day I suppose. :(

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From: aa126@fan1.csd.unb.ca (William Burrow)
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Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
Date: 26 Dec 1995 17:57:18 GMT
Organization: University of New Brunswick
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