New programming language rankings: Python now as popular as Java, as TypeScript climbs
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Rising languages in RedMonk's latest ranking include Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Dart.
Unless you count the actual number of programmers or programs
'While the company's ranking of programming languages is influential among developers, O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
Kent Sharkey wrote:
O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
He's counting the salt wrong. It's a mountain. (And the expression is "a pinch of salt", anyway, so he's not only wasting his life on useless "research", but he's only semi-literate, to boot.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Rising languages in RedMonk's latest ranking include Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Dart.
Unless you count the actual number of programmers or programs
'While the company's ranking of programming languages is influential among developers, O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
Perhaps languages are more popular on StackExchange because they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions.
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Perhaps languages are more popular on StackExchange because they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions.
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they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions
It's an interesting problem in statistics - identifying the *real* reason for some correlations. Recently a research paper showed that drinking lots of coffee made people live longer (statistically). However, I would be interested in the fact the people who drink lots (and lots, and lots) of coffee tend to drink less hard liquor and beer, have a higher IQ and eat slightly more healthy foods and not to excess - which could have a statistically significant effect on longevity - so how accurate is the "drink more coffee and live longer" theory? ...or how popular is Python really? btw: I once ate a python, or some of it anyway; it was delicious (it tasted like chicken - no, really!).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Perhaps languages are more popular on StackExchange because they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions.
Reminds me of my semester paper for statistics class - I proved (conclusively, no less) that the rise in sales of vacuum tubes correlated closely with the rise in the suicide rate. (and there you have a clue to when I was taking college classes ;P)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
He's counting the salt wrong. It's a mountain. (And the expression is "a pinch of salt", anyway, so he's not only wasting his life on useless "research", but he's only semi-literate, to boot.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
And the expression is "a pinch of salt"
Not in the US.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
And the expression is "a pinch of salt"
Not in the US.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Not in the US
No one else cares.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
And the expression is "a pinch of salt"
Not in the US.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
I can believe that. Cooks the US don't add a pinch of salt to flavour food, they add a kilo of sugar.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can believe that. Cooks the US don't add a pinch of salt to flavour food, they add a kilo of sugar.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Perhaps languages are more popular on StackExchange because they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions.
Python is not that language. It's basically psudeocode with a conditionally forgiving interpreter, provided that you don't try to use white space to format...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
kilo
What’s that? 😄
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
It's the way of the future! (But not a microsoft f***-up)
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