Google Code Jam 2011 Language Usage
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun May 8 04:39:20 PDT 2011
Peter Alexander:
> Some select figures for languages used to solve the first question:
>
> C++ 5032
> Java 2321
> C# 628
> C 532
> Haskell 100
> Clojure 13
> GO 13
> D 5
> Scheme 5
The third most used language is Python.
> (In previous 3 years, D had between 2-4 entries for the first question,
> so not much change, despite total contestant counts increasing quite
> dramatically)
But a person from Japan has used D to be among the top ten, this is good:
http://www.go-hero.net/jam/11/name/hos.lyric
The first, second and third persons are using the most used language, second most used and third most used (C++, Java, Python) :-)
> Obviously you can't draw too many conclusions from this alone, but more
> data is always better. Take what you will from it.
>From those numbers it looks like D isn't gaining mindshare, unfortunately. Go too doesn't look to receive much attention. On the other hand C# seems appreciated, even if much lass than Python.
Among the supported languages there is Cobol and Fortran, and many others, but I don't see Ada.
Bye,
bearophile
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