Python's popularity statistics
Carl Banks
imbosol at vt.edu
Wed Dec 11 23:28:20 EST 2002
Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 19:24, Mike Dean wrote:
>> Also, it is intriquing that C is below both C++ and Java - from a rough
>> survey of implementation languages for free software on the Internet,
>> one gets the impression that C is used more (possibly even twice as
>> much) as C++ and Java combined. Do they also have such a huge hidden
>> following, or are there so many more questions in them that they warrant
>> such a large amount of discussion traffic?
>
> What questions are there about C that haven't been answered in
> innumerable books and online sources? It's a fully matured language,
> and very boring to talk about.
Last time I read comp.lang.c, the breakdown by type of post was
something like this:
30% - people with questions about programming in Windows, and replies
from the regulars saying it was off-topic
15% - discussion over what is supposed to happen when you write code
like i=i++ or i^=j^=i^=j
10% - discussion about what and what was not considered on-topic
(where it was generally agreed that discussion about what was
and was not on-topic was on-topic)
10% - college kids posting their homework assignments, and the replies
(which were generally the most entertaining posts on the group)
10% - flame wars comparing C to other languages, especially Java and
Visual Basic
5% - posts whose only point was to point out that someone used a
nonstandard header (especially <conio.h> and <unistd.h>)
(And, in all fairness, there is a recently approved C 2000 spec that's
kind of new and unusual.)
ok-I-might-be-exaggerating-the-percentages-a-little-ly yr's
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CARL BANKS
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