More usenet usage statistics, by programming language

[Peter Hansen]

"Aaron K. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> In message <v339gg9p1rlb3e at news.supernews.com>, "John Roth" wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand. Number of unique posters in the last 200 posts to a
> > newsgroup I understand,
> > and 647 to the (one) Python newsgroup I understand, but I don't
> > understand how you get
> > 647 different posters out of the last 200 posts.
> >
> > Oh, and Clipper is an old data base language, somewhere in the dbase
> > family.
> 
> oops, sorry....I meant 2000!

So, among other problems, this means if a given newsgroup had a single
large thread with a half-dozen regulars posting ten times each in a
big argument, that particular language would appear less popular...

-Peter