Go tops Java, C, Python for programming language of the year

[Kent Sharkey]

Infoworld[^]:

The Google-grown language bests Dart and Perl, while Java, C, and Python slip.

I'll take, "Give me an intro to stats" for $200, Alex

I just felt I needed to share this. The cure for foolishness is sharing it, right? :sigh:

[Mark_Wallace]

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It is not about theoretical concepts, such as virtual inheritance and nomads, but about hands-on experience

i.e. it's the VB of the new millennium.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Dan Neely]

Straw poll time. Do you think that its more likely that: 0) In the last year: Go has become 14x more popular C has lost 42% of its popularity Java last lost 20% of its popularity or 1) The Tiobe Index is produced by spiking elephant food with laxatives?

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt