Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 9/27/06, Mirco Wahab <peace.is.our.profession at gmx.de> wrote:
> Thus spoke Xah Lee (on 2006-09-27 05:03):
>
> > This page gives a visual report of computer languages's
> > popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups.
> > ...
> > http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html
>
> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted
> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns,
> they resisted because one could push any peasant

shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai] did not resist"?

> behind a gun -- thus nullifying the result of
> the Samurai Art of Warfare that required a life
> full of learning - in the end wiping out a
> complete culture.
>
> Same trend here - the reason is: 'cost' ;-)
>
>
> Regards & scnr
>
> Mirco
>
> f'up: clpm, clp
>
>
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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Bioinformatics Unit
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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