December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[Erik Max Francis]

"Aaron K. Johnson" wrote:

> Spam....hmmm.....don't know what kind of mechanism I could set up that
> would
> filter that easily, or without me blowing the script size to larger
> than I
> would want it to be....if you want to take over, I'd pass you the
> code!

Well, naturally.  I wasn't saying you should have taken spam into
account, but it is one of the many complicating factors that makes
turning the numbers you've collected into useful data that _measure_
something substantial about the language difficult.

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