[racket-dev] another site that measures programming language popularity

That's interesting. It's such a different picture than for example GitHub:

    https://github.com/languages

We should hire Nate Silver to make sense of it. :)

    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:49 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> This is of tangential interest only; the site
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> https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language
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> does what appears to be a better job of evaluating language popularity than TIOBE--among other things, they use google trends rather than search result #s, as Joe Marshall has persistently requested, and they try to follow leading indicators, rather than trailing ones.
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> Unfortunately, they don't go below the top ten, and trying to generate the search myself produces a message that my search quota has been exceeded....
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> https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language
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> John Clements
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