More usenet usage statistics, by programming language

[Aaron K. Johnson]

Hello all,

For what its worth, I've updated my usenet language stats (interpret them how
you will)

This time, the data reflects the actual number of DIFFERENT posters to each
group in the last 200 posts to each group, as opposed to just the total posts
to the group.

I think this gives a better idea about how many people relative to population
of programmers use each language. There are some surprises. Like, what in the
hell is Clipper?

You may also decide to put c/c++ together, in which case the total is 1511,
right under java (which makes intuitive sense)

Best,
Aaron.

survey begins here:

java 3715
(c/c++ taken together) 1511
basic 1292
perl 1240
c++ 953
pascal 905
clipper 690
python 647
labview 579
javascript 570
c 558
clarion 491
tcl 443
asm 381
scheme 361
vhdl 359
fortran 341
lisp 325
ruby 315
cobol 310
postscript 308
ada 267
smalltalk 262
prolog 231
functional 230
idl-pvwave 226
forth 223
verilog 220
awk 205
vrml 151
rexx 142
apl 139
mumps 124
pl1 117
objective-c 106
misc 105
eiffel 99
logo 78
ml 72
asm370 63
dylan 37
modula3 30
oberon 23
modula2 22
pop 19
icon 13
idl 12
limbo 5
clos 4
prograph 2
clu 2
visual 0
sather 0
hermes 0
comp 0
beta 0