[Robotgroup] Computer Language Popularity Trends

[Evan Harris]

I was thinking kinda along the same lines.  For instance, perl has become so 
well established and documented (many books, lots of online docs, more 
people knowledgeable and available to ask individually) that people might be 
finding it easy enough to find answers to the majority of their questions 
without having to ask them on usenet.

It may also have to do with the demographics of the groups adopting those 
languages and their familiarity with usenet.  For instance, it may appear 
that C and Lisp are making a comeback compared to Perl and JS, but maybe 
that has to do with their use by "older" programmers who are more familiar 
and comfortable with usenet.  Maybe the Perl and JS is a younger audience 
who is more comfortable asking questions on webchat/bulletin boards or 
wiki's, and many of them might not have much of a clue what "usenet" even 
is.

Evan

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Vern Graner wrote:

> Eric Lundquist wrote:
>> Lisp is making a comeback!  Awesome! :)
>> - Eric
>>
>> On 9/26/06, Shane Geiger <sgeiger at ncee.net> wrote:
>>> Check these graphs out.  Kind of interesting.
>>>
>>> http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html
>
> Of course, this could also be viewed as "more posts = more problems" :)
> Maybe there are no posts about "BASIC" in that graph not because people
> aren't using it, but because they're not having *trouble* using it! ;)
>
> Vern