The Rise (and Fall) of Programming Languages

[Thomphoolery]

I found this chart on a data statistics blog - it shows two measurements:

1) The size of the box is the percent of books released in 2010 about a particular programming language
2) The "%" inside the box (positive or negative) is the difference between 2010's % and 2009's %. For example, "-37%" indicates that 37% fewer books were written on that subject in 2010 than in 2009.

A few things I found interesting - objective C is down 12% and Java is up 9%. Nearly a zero sum there...does this mean Android development going to even out iPhone development? Publishers seem to think so.

And of course, Java remains king for technical authors. =)

-j

[Grazer]

I'll take some R with my SAS, wut wut.

[Djfurball]

Considering PHP  lost a third of it's size, the fact that it's still that significant is interesting.

Why is vba growing?!

[Thomphoolery]

Considering PHP  lost a third of it's size, the fact that it's still that significant is interesting.

Why is vba growing?!

I was thinking VBA was due to Microsoft releasing Office 2010. Every time a new Office suite comes out, you get all the updated texts like: "VBA for Access 2010", "VBA for Excel 2010", etc. I could be totally wrong, though.

-j

[Omegaman]

Considering PHP  lost a third of it's size, the fact that it's still that significant is interesting.

Why is vba growing?!

Windows Phone maybe?  Not sure what those are written in.

[Thomphoolery]

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/02/cussing-in-commits-which-programming-language-inspires-the-most-swearing/

Pretty funny graph on which languages make developers swear the most. C++, of course, wins.

-j

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"C++ takes top honors for number of swearing developers on GitHub
As any programmer can tell you, programming will make you swear. But did you know that writing C++ will make you swear considerably more than PHP or Python?

Developer Andrew Vos was looking for a weekend project when he decided to grab some one million commit messages from GitHub and scan them for swear words. He limited the swearing to George Carlin’s seven dirty words and then broke down the results according to programming language. To make sure that the popularity of one language over another didn’t skew the results, Vos grabbed an equal number of commit messages per language.

C++ takes top honors, but just barely. Ruby and JavaScript are neck and neck behind C++. After that it drops off considerably with C, Java and C# placing in the middle. Python and PHP developers are either very happy about using those languages, or perhaps just very mild-mannered developers. Of course just because they don’t swear in commits doesn’t mean they don’t swear. As one commenter on Vos’s post says, “I program in Python, but all my cussing is related to IE.”

It’s impossible to know how many developers are swearing at their screens while writing code, but if you’re looking for a less swear-word-inducing programming language, PHP and Python seem to be the way to go.

Even more interesting than the statistics by language are the actual commits, which you can check out on Vos’s GitHub account. Our personal favorite: “fuck it. let’s release.” Indeed."

[Grazer]

He limited the swearing to George Carlin’s seven dirty words and then broke down the results according to programming language.

Ok, but one of those words is "Tits" which is confounded by the fact that C++ programmers are known to have a disproportionate amount of game.