Top programming languages

For quite some time I was wondering which programming languages were the most hated on the web, so I did this simple test: I googled "hate [language name]" and here are the results:

501 ruby
733 c++
1260 python
9350 javascript
12100 php
13200 perl
21900 java
50900 c

You are free to deduce whatever you want from those results (I won't say I was not surprised to see C, java and perl in the top 3…)

I then asked myself what was the ratio of existing projects in a language and the number h of results to the previous query. For each language, p is the number of projects using that language on SourceForge.
Let C the repulsion coeffiction of the language, C = h / p. The results are somehow interesting:

0.076 c++
0.362 python
0.942 ruby
1.150 php
1.533 java
4.067 perl
5.276 c
6.216 javascript

Surprise ! C, Java and Perl are still in the top 4, but JS is now first. Another surprise is C++, I thought it would be worse than that…

3 Responses to "Top programming languages"

Fab says:

245 000 "javascript is great"
10 600 "java is great"
4 740 "c++ is great"
928 "python is great"
925 "c is great"
861 "php is great"
776 "perl is great"
534 "ruby is great"

Je te laisse faire les rapports g/p :)

Adrien Friggeri says:

Le monde est incohérent…
0.0817975 php
0.0958847 c
0.239063 perl
0.266743 python
0.463356 c++
0.742245 java
1.00376 ruby
162.899 javascript

Et le rapport g/h ca donne ca :
0.0181729 c
0.0587879 perl
0.071157 php
0.484018 java
0.736508 python
1.06587 ruby
6.09823 c++
26.2032 javascript

Fab says:

Et encore, ce n'est rien. Cherche "love ruby"…
Dis, ça me donne une idée. On pourrait créer un langage qui porte un de ces noms : http://www.google.fr/trends/hottrends?sa=X

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