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

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From: Igor Chudov
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 05:45

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IMHO, simple languages that are easy to learn and formalize do not
generate as much traffic as languages with complex syntax, semantics,
great nuber of rules and exceptions. 

So these numbers can actually indicate not "goodness" or even
"aceptance" of a certain language, but rather its complexity to
beginners.

I think this empirical formula is a close approximation of the number
of posts in comp.lang.* newsgroups: 

Nposts( X ) = obscurity( X ) * popularity( X ).

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From: ichudov@espcbw.stat.ncsu.edu (Igor Chudov)
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Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
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