December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[holger krekel]

Hi Nick,

> I've been working on a much more comprehensive analysis of Java and Dotnet
> developer activity, covering close to 5,000 sources (Usetnet groups, mailing
> lists, web forums -- a source is one group list, forum, etc.).  I just
> recently threw Python into the mix, mainly because it's what I'm using to
> gather the data and do much of the analysis.  This amounts to more than
> 5,000 messages a day.  It isn't just venues for supporting the language; it
> includes open-source projects being created with Java and Python (by
> definition, aren't many true open source project done with Dotnet, except
> for Mono and things like that).
> [... interesting stuff ...]

Wow, that sounds interesting.  Do you have any URL to look at or
this is all closed?  

I would really enjoy statistics about various aspects of 
free softare projects without any "noise" from certain 
big companies.

    holger