Re: Language popularity on Ubuntu

Jon Harrop <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Like Debian, Ubuntu have a package popularity contest. I looked up the
current number of absolute installations of the compilers for different
languages and found the results very surprising:

Erlang: 4027 (erlang-base)
OCaml: 3513 (ocaml-nox)
Haskell: 3372 = 2364 (ghc6) + 1008 (hugs)
Lisp: 2696 = 1183 (clisp) + 865 (sbcl) + 326 (gcl) + 322 (cmucl)
Scheme: 1974 = 1200 (mzscheme) + 565 (mit-scheme) + 141 (scheme48) + 68
(stalin)
SML: 371 = 187 (smlnj) + 128 (mosml) + 56 (mlton)
Scala: 125

I had been under the impression that Haskell and Lisp were substantially
more popular than OCaml, for example.

These numbers do not really indicate the number of people who use the
languages. Some people install compilers to install and run programs
other people have written. So if, say, apopular program is written in
an obscure language (and requires the compiler/interpreter to be
installed) that might skew the numbers in favour of this language.

Torben
.

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