#!/usr/bin/perl
   
use strict;
use warnings;
   
use LWP::Simple qw /$ua get getprint/;
   
my @years  = (2000 .. 2004);
my @months = qw /January/;
my @langs  = qw /Perl Python Java C C++ Ruby PHP Cobol BASIC FORTRAN F
+orth
                 UNIX Lisp Scheme Haskell shell .NET Pascal Ada Eiffel
+/;  
  
my %info;
  
$ua -> proxy (http => "http://XXXX:XXXX/");
$ua -> agent ("Mozilla/8.0");
    
foreach my $lang (@langs) {
    my $l = $lang;
       $l =~ s/(\W)/sprintf "%%%02x" => ord $1/eg;
    foreach my $year (@years) {
        foreach my $month (@months) {
            sleep 2;
            my $query = lc "q=$l+programming+%22$month+$year%22";
            my $url   = "http://www.google.nl/search?$query&hl=en";
            my $text  = get ($url) or do {
                warn "Failed to get $lang/$month/$year\n";
                next;
            };
            print STDERR ".";
            unless ($text =~ m!Results \s+ <b>\d+</b>\s*-\s*<b>\d+</b>
+ \s+
                               of \s+ about \s+ <b>([\d,]+)</b>!x) {
                warn "Failed to parse $lang/$month/$year\n";
                next;
            }
            my $count = $1;  
            $count =~ s/,//g;
            $info {$lang} {$year} {$month} [0] = $count;
            $info {$lang} {$year} {$month} [1] =
                $info {$lang} {$years [0]} {$months [0]} [0] ?
                100 * $info {$lang} {$year} {$month} [0] /
                      $info {$lang} {$years [0]} {$months [0]} [0] : -
+1;
        }
    }
    print STDERR "\n";
}
                
print " " x 9;
foreach my $year (@years) {
    foreach my $month (@months) {
        printf "  %3s  %4d  " => substr ($month, 0, 3), $year
    }
}
print "\n";
             
foreach my $lang (sort {$info {$b} {$years [-1]} {$months [-1]} [1] <=
+>
                        $info {$a} {$years [-1]} {$months [-1]} [1]} @
+langs) {
    printf "%7s ", $lang;
    foreach my $year (@years) {
        my $w = $year >= 2004 ? 4 : 3;
        foreach my $month (@months) {
            printf "%7d (%${w}d)" => @{$info {$lang} {$year} {$month}}
+; 
        }
    }
    print "\n";
}

__END__
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