Computer Language Popularity Trend

[James Stroud]

mark.hoemmen at gmail.com wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> Computer Language Popularity Trend
>>
>> This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as
>> indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
>> comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
>> popularity trends.
>>
>> http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html
> 
> Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments
> about languages :)
> 
> Furthermore, it's nice to conclude that Lisp is getting more popular,
> but we also have to take into account global trends (maybe more people
> are using usenet in general? maybe the total number of programmers in
> the world is increasing?).
> 
> Still, it's nice to see trends plotted out like that, thanks for the
> work :)
> 
> mfh
> 

Finally, a contribution of substance from lambda. Who woulda thunk it?