Another ranking of programming languages via www.stackoverflow.com
questions and www.github.com projects:
    http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-popularity-of-programming-langauges/

Fortran is near the middle, surprising.  I would have thought
fortran to be much lower is popularity.

Lynn

On Dec 14, 2:34=A0am, Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com> wrote:
> Another ranking of programming languages viawww.stackoverflow.com
> questions andwww.github.comprojects:
> =A0 =A0http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-popularity-of-programm=
ing...
>
> Fortran is near the middle, surprising. =A0I would have thought
> fortran to be much lower is popularity.
>
> Lynn


I think the only obvious result of the study is that "Stack Overflow"
and "Github" have a 0.78 corelation on opinions of popularity measured
in reported projects. I don't think is says much of value for the
usefulness of the languages themselves.

Note that Fortran and Occam almost share the save point, with
smalltalk a little lower.
The Occum language was designed for multiple-connected cpus and is
essentially Fortran with signals and messaging (I used Occam decades
ago with Transputers when they first came out); but NOT the kind of
target found in the average home or office.