From: mike@... (Mike Stok) Date: 2003-05-16T03:55:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Test::Unit sequencing In article , ahoward wrote: >On Thu, 15 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote: > >> (Boggles at the fact that there have been 11,239 posts to this list so >> far this year... the first was ruby-talk:60251) > >sure sounds like alot - does anyone know of a means to compare this with other >comp.lang groups like perl, python, c, java, c++? > >would be interesting to see. One way is to ask groups.google.com's advanced search - I asked for all the posts in comp.languages.perl.* between 1 Jan 2003 and today and the stats said: Searched Groups for group:comp.lang.perl.* from 1 Jan 2003 to today. Results 1 - 10 of about 13,500. Search took 0.39 seconds. *but* each result is a thread, and I'm too lazy to add up the articles :-) It clams comp.lang.ruby has ~ 8260 threads for the period. Whether that comes close enough to answering your question I don't know; I know that threads in comp.lang.perl.misc used to run and run so their average thread length could be bigger than c.l.r's Hope this helps, Mike -- mike@stok.co.uk | The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply. http://www.stok.co.uk/~mike/ | GPG PGP Key 1024D/059913DA mike@exegenix.com | Fingerprint 0570 71CD 6790 7C28 3D60 http://www.exegenix.com/ | 75D2 9EC4 C1C0 0599 13DA