From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-03-21T22:17:14+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML (Yet Another Meaningless      Languagepopularitystatisticalsummary :)

> I couldn't resist ... anyhow one of my fellow Forth freaks does this
> every year. Yes, Ruby is ahead of Forth. But Forth is ahead of Haskell
> and Erlang. :)
>
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/

That's really interesting :-) Not so much from a relative point of view
(for me), but more from seeing the different interest profiles of
languages, and how their popularity waxes and wanes. Would be nice to
see them on a graph.

The other stat is how much total usenet postings drop over the period!