December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[Aaron K. Johnson]

In message <877kct1tgk.fsf at flibuste.net>, William wrote:
> Aaron K. Johnson <akjmicro at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Ok.
> > 
> > I've finally taken into account the objections raised herein, and
> modified my
> > usenet query algorithms.
> > 
> > What you see below are pure and simple the number of unique posters to
> each
> > comp.lang.whatever hierarchy in December 2002.
> 
> can you give us your script ? i would like to compare with fr.comp.lang.*

William, I'll send you a private email with the script.

Anyone else who wants it, I'll send it to you, with the caveat that any
improvements you make to it, you send back to me, or uses you put it to, you
give me the output to......

> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron.
> > 
> > comp.lang.java 5347
> > comp.lang.c++ 3075
> > comp.lang.perl 2136
> > comp.lang.javascript 2130
> > comp.lang.python 1996
> > comp.lang.basic 1758
> > comp.lang.c 1670
> > comp.lang.labview 958
> > comp.lang.clipper 922
> > comp.lang.tcl 853
> > comp.lang.pascal 805
> > comp.lang.ruby 767
> > comp.lang.clarion 707
> > comp.lang.lisp 587
> > comp.lang.fortran 517
> > comp.lang.smalltalk 391
> > comp.lang.asm 386
> > comp.lang.cobol 382
> > comp.lang.ada 376
> > comp.lang.vhdl 370
> > comp.lang.scheme 349
> > comp.lang.postscript 319
> > comp.lang.prolog 243
> > comp.lang.functional 237
> > comp.lang.idl-pvwave 230
> > comp.lang.forth 226
> > comp.lang.verilog 223
> > comp.lang.awk 211
> > comp.lang.vrml 153
> > comp.lang.rexx 147
> > comp.lang.apl 142
> > comp.lang.mumps 126
> > comp.lang.pl1 121
> > comp.lang.misc 115
> > comp.lang.objective-c 108
> > comp.lang.eiffel 101
> > comp.lang.logo 80
> > comp.lang.ml 73
> > comp.lang.asm370 65
> > comp.lang.dylan 38
> > comp.lang.modula3 30
> > comp.lang.oberon 26
> > comp.lang.modula2 23
> > comp.lang.pop 22
> > comp.lang.icon 17
> > comp.lang.idl 15
> > comp.lang.limbo 5
> > comp.lang.clos 4
> > comp.lang.prograph 2
> > comp.lang.clu 2
> > 
>