From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T03:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

Park Heesob wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is an article about Programming Languages that are Loved.
> http://bluebones.net/news/default.asp?action=view_story&story_id=81
>
> It shows Ruby is Top 1.
> But it warns that Ruby's outstanding result should not be taken too
> seriously.

Actually, if you look at the comments that I just posted to that thread, my
(unscientific) addition indicates that you *can* take the Ruby results
seriously -- by a lot!

Here's what I wrote:

  I just used Google to search for "I love Ruby"
  (with the double quotes to search for the phrase),
  and I got 2,750 hits. I went through the first
  hundred hits and found 60% of them to be referring
  to the programming language. Extrapolating, this
  gives 1,650 real hits.

  When I search for "I hate ruby" (again, with the
  quotes) I get 58 hits. Only one of them was about
  the programming language -- even then, it said "its
  not that I hate ruby..." But I'll count it anyway
  because the same could happen for the other languages.

  So this actually boosts Ruby's ratio to 1,650. That's
  16.5 times higher than Python!

Ahhh... the satisfaction of being validated!

Curt