More usenet usage statistics, by programming language

Bjorn Pettersen BPettersen at NAREX.com
Fri Jan 24 17:09:51 EST 2003


> From: Aaron K. Johnson [mailto:akjmicro at yahoo.com] 
> 
> In message <v339gg9p1rlb3e at news.supernews.com>, "John Roth" wrote:
> > 
> > I don't understand. Number of unique posters in the last 
> > 200 posts to a newsgroup I understand,
> > and 647 to the (one) Python newsgroup I understand, but I don't
> > understand how you get
> > 647 different posters out of the last 200 posts.
> > 
> > Oh, and Clipper is an old data base language, somewhere in the dbase
> > family.
> 
> oops, sorry....I meant 2000!

Which begs the question...: How does Java get 3715 posters in 2000
messages?

lies-damned-lies-and-statistics'ly y'rs
-- bjorn





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