Re: Programming language popularity ranking

From: Martin Krischik (martin_at_krischik.com)
Date: 02/09/05

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    Manuel G. R. wrote:

    > Martin Krischik wrote:
    >> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
    >>
    >>>What can we make of this site's objectivity?
    >>>
    >>>"February Headline: Fourth increase in a row for both Java and C#".
    >>
    >>
    >>>Java shows a decrease of 4.22%, and both Java and C#'s positions have
    >>>dropped.
    >>
    >>
    >> "We offer out-of-the-box solutions for the programming languages C, C++,
    >> C# and Java."

    Look closely: "C, C++, C# and Java." not "Java, C, C++ and C#." Maybe they
    changed the algorithm to fit there buisiness aim.

    >> What do you expect. But since they have a very primitive algorithm I
    >> decided to add "Ada programming" to my signature.
    >
    > Me too.
    >
    > Let's look at the graphic. What did they do in Mar-04? A change in the
    > algorithm, I guess, but the former percentages look more confident.

    Prehaps is't that strange "-tv". I removes any site with a hit on "tv".

    +"Ada programming" 52.000
    +"Ada programming" -tv 46,800
    Impact 10%

    +"ABAP programming" 43,400
    +"ABAP programming" -tv 42,300
    Impact 2.5%

    +"C programming" 1,580,000
    +"C programming" -tv 1,480,000
    Impact 6,3%

    Yet another mytery solved. Remeber the green and red arrows are calculated
    over the year not the month! Never trust a statistic you have not
    falseified yourself.

    Of corse this has been a google search only. To see the hole picture one
    need to make searches on MSN, Yahoo and google groups.

    But I did make little test on +tv - there are many legitimate sites having
    both programming and tv.

    The real problem is that we did such a check and now how cheaty the stats
    are - but the seminformed do not.

    I for one will drop them a mail. BTW: Ada has such a hard hit because of the
    use of Ada in tv satelites and tv satelite receivers. Pages on that
    subjecte are not counted. And I will point that out to them - if it helps I
    don't know.

    Martin 

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