C# vs Ruby

#1

Post by nickb » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 8:12 AM UTC

C# vs Ruby
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Re: C# vs Ruby

#2

Post by jwilliams » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 8:28 AM UTC

Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby...

C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by kxt » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 9:32 AM UTC

jwilliams wrote: post #2

Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby... C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...

Re: C# vs Ruby

#4

Post by ntoshev » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 10:25 AM UTC

I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#.

Probably because I don't use them recently.

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by shawndrost » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 10:49 AM UTC

kxt wrote: post #3

jwilliams wrote: post #2

Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby... C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...

Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume.

Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by greyman » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 1:38 PM UTC

> C# is used by people that develop only on their 9-5, Mon-Fri job.

Heh, my case exactly. ;-)

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by cosmo7 » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 1:41 PM UTC

Obviously the C# guys are on their yachts or flying their planes at the weekend. The Ruby people would have web access from their security guard jobs.

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 2:32 PM UTC

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Re: C# vs Ruby

#9

Post by nuclear_eclipse » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 2:46 PM UTC

The same trend seems to hold for other "corporate" languages, such as PHP, .Net, and C++:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B...

Re: C# vs Ruby

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Post by acangiano » Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 3:29 PM UTC

shawndrost wrote: post #5

kxt wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...

Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume. Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...

You mean "since 2004".