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Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by JoelPM »

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance).

Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-in.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by sogrady »

JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by JoelPM »

sogrady wrote: post #3
JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

Thanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by ZeroMinx »

sogrady wrote: post #3
JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

I wonder what kind of numbers Perl would get?

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by sogrady »

JoelPM wrote: post #4
sogrady wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

Thanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).

No indeed. Language selection was a random sample, though I'm cutting off those with < 5 K mentions (e.g. C# @ 4553). Happy to run more languages if people have questions about them.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by sogrady »

ZeroMinx wrote: post #5
sogrady wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

I wonder what kind of numbers Perl would get?

I'll update the post when I get a chance, but in the meantime Perl was at 20,205 mentions.
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