Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

xah@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as
indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
popularity trends.

I think it does not.

Among e.g. Lisp programmers, there seems to be a very high percentage
of developers that participates in online discussions on newsgroup
and mailing lists compared to e.g. C programmers.

The demographic of developers using certain languages vary way
too much to justify drawing any sensible conclution based on newsgroup traffic.
.

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