home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu!not-for-mail
- From: dstubbs@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu (Dan Stubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Number of posts to groups in comp.lang.*
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 12:56:13 -0800
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Message-ID: <4fgcdd$51op@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-User: dstubbs@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu
-
- Some time ago I posted a list of all groups (there are 69 of them)
- with a name of the form comp.lang.*. The listing included the total
- number of posts (since the beginning of time) to each group, and
- was ordered by the number of posts.
-
- I have repeated the list below with the number of posts updated to
- today. I have a program that constructs this list in a few seconds.
-
- I don't believe that you can draw any grand conclusions about the
- underlying languages from these numbers. There may be some broad
- conclusions about a languages "popularity", but even in such a vague
- setting I don't claim to know what conclusions might be drawn.
-
- Quite a few individuals seemed to find these numbers interesting
- and/or entertaining last time. That is why I am posting them again.
-
- I noted last time that c.l.java, with only a short time on the
- list, was already in 12th position. Observe that it is in 5th place
- this time. Similarly, c.l.javascript has been on the list about
- a week, and is now in 62nd position.
-
- 1 79,265 comp.lang.c++
- 2 61,891 comp.lang.c
- 3 61,808 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
- 4 24,164 comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
- 5 22,494 comp.lang.java
- 6 22,289 comp.lang.tcl
- 7 19,960 comp.lang.perl.misc
- 8 18,190 comp.lang.ada
- 9 17,502 comp.lang.smalltalk
- 10 16,651 comp.lang.asm.x86
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 11 15,475 comp.lang.basic.visual.database
- 12 14,411 comp.lang.fortran
- 13 11,832 comp.lang.postscript
- 14 11,738 comp.lang.basic.misc
- 15 11,145 comp.lang.clipper
- 16 10,988 comp.lang.pascal.borland
- 17 10,675 comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty
- 18 9,959 comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases
- 19 8,785 comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components
- 20 8,319 comp.lang.forth
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 21 7,821 comp.lang.cobol
- 22 7,055 comp.lang.rexx
- 23 6,504 comp.lang.python
- 24 6,464 comp.lang.misc
- 25 6,113 comp.lang.eiffel
- 26 5,765 comp.lang.lisp
- 27 4,716 comp.lang.scheme
- 28 4,555 comp.lang.vhdl
- 29 4,469 comp.lang.pascal.misc
- 30 4,217 comp.lang.prograph
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 31 4,008 comp.lang.modula2
- 32 3,478 comp.lang.oberon
- 33 3,342 comp.lang.prolog
- 34 3,238 comp.lang.dylan
- 35 3,168 comp.lang.c.moderated
- 36 3,093 comp.lang.mumps
- 37 3,068 comp.lang.modula3
- 38 3,040 comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- 39 2,688 comp.lang.pascal.mac
- 40 2,680 comp.lang.apl
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 41 2,454 comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- 42 2,298 comp.lang.verilog
- 43 1,853 comp.lang.functional
- 44 1,662 comp.lang.objective-c
- 45 1,583 comp.lang.awk
- 46 1,513 comp.lang.c++.moderated
- 47 1,382 comp.lang.asm370
- 48 1,346 comp.lang.sather
- 49 1,068 comp.lang.clos
- 50 1,058 comp.lang.perl.tk
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 51 983 comp.lang.logo
- 52 839 comp.lang.visual
- 53 697 comp.lang.ml
- 54 678 comp.lang.c++.leda
- 55 613 comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso
- 56 549 comp.lang.beta
- 57 528 comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
- 58 459 comp.lang.pop
- 59 438 comp.lang.icon
- 60 420 comp.lang.forth.mac
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- 61 370 comp.lang.lisp.x
- 62 277 comp.lang.javascript
- 63 249 comp.lang.perl.announce
- 64 237 comp.lang.lisp.franz
- 65 188 comp.lang.scheme.c
- 66 175 comp.lang.idl
- 67 73 comp.lang.hermes
- 68 46 comp.lang.sigplan
- 69 37 comp.lang.clu
-