[ruby-talk:4642] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development?

Hi,

Cameron Laird writes:

> I suspect a handful of people somewhere might seriously care (in the
> sense of actually making large project language decisions based on the
> answer), but I was just generally interested for the sake of rough
> comparison with whatever the answer for Ruby turned out to be.
>
> In fact I think a plot of maximum application size versus year and a
> plot of number of users versus year for Perl, Python, Tcl, and Ruby
> would be interesting. I don't know any good way to get data for the
> first plot. For the 2nd plot, I think a year or so ago Larry Wall
> tried to estimate the relative scale of commercial C++, Java, Visual
> Basic, Perl, and Python usage by analyzing online job postings
> somewhere.
>
> Did the biiiiiig calculations you mentioned just involve lots of data
> crunching or were the programs themselves humongous (if not in scale,
> at least in terms of the labor that went into them)?

Conrad Schneiker
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