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Re^2: LUI: Language Usage Indicators page

by arbingersys (Pilgrim)
on Mar 06, 2008 at 15:54 UTC ( [id://672480]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: LUI: Language Usage Indicators page
in thread LUI: Language Usage Indicators page

... it seems to be more useful to look to the future than to the past when deciding which languages to learn or whatever.

It's just that I'm not sure how to graph the future :)

You make some good points however. In reviewing LUI, I've realized that most of the metrics are affected by the past (which I don't think is a bad thing, but must be accounted for). For instance, C/C++ have such high numbers partly because they've had so much more time to accumulate write-ups.

How about some metrics that try to look at the present? I've got one more SourceForge metric I want to add, the "Most Active" projects, and as I mention above I want a metric that looks at "community" activity, which is obviously both a past and present metric.

Part of the value, of course, in a site like LUI, is not what it can give you immediately, but what can be mined at some later date. Patterns emerge from the past that can help you guess at the future.

A blog among millions.

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Re^3: LUI: Language Usage Indicators page
by nefigah (Monk) on Mar 06, 2008 at 20:08 UTC
    It's just that I'm not sure how to graph the future :)
    A valid point :)

    Perhaps the opposite approach could also be considered? That is, metrics of projects that have failed and projects that are being rewritten in a different language. (True, there can be just as many non-language-related reasons for those things too, but hey.)

    Another cool thing would be more comparisons relative to the same "field" of programming. Comparing C++ to PHP, for example, doesn't make much sense, as you couldn't use one for the other even if you wanted to. (Going out on a limb here by assuming that anyone would want to use C++ or PHP for anything :P) Of course it can get somewhat complicated when looking at, for example, Java, where people have tried to make it do everything including web programming, which is why you can't just say "well, only look at PHP numbers compared to Perl numbers then."

    Some ideas anyway. Godspeed!

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