[NTLUG:Discuss] Wanting to speak the language

[Rev. wRy]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:52, Steve Baker wrote:
> Ohh!! Language War!!
> 
> The *vast* majority of OpenSource projects are written in C or C++.

No argument here.

> If you go to SourceForge (by far the biggest repository of OpenSource
> projects), and do a search by programming language, you'll find a LONG
> list of the number of projects written in each of the languages that
> are 'out there'.  Most languages are used in a mere handful of projects.
> 
> The top four most popular languages are:
> 
>        C++  (14830 projects)
>        C    (14341 projects)
>        Java (14095 projects)
>        PHP  (10439 projects)
> 
> All of the other languages are *FAR* below those in popularity (PERL
> is number five with 5691 projects).

I would posit that PHP isn't a 'programming' language, so the inclusion
on said list is irrelevant, which only shows that projects are not the
same as programs.  Is it compilable?  Executable without a web server? 
Scriptable?  

:)

Again, depending on what the OP is trying to do is by far the most
important factor in what language is used.  All of us have our biases
towards certain things, because that's the way *we* learned.  

RW
(besides, the perl drinke^w programmers have more fun)
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