Computer Language Popularity Trend

[Joe Marshall]

Xah Lee wrote:
> Computer Language Popularity Trend
>
> This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as
> indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
> comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
> popularity trends.

Suggestions:
  Provide a log-scale plot.  You can clearly see that there are
exponential trends in the data, these will turn into lines in
log-scale.  You can also see that the plots get more widely distributed
as the number of posts increase.  This too will be minimized in
log-scale.

  Make the horizontal scale for the `scripting' languages the same as
the others.  I know there isn't data out on the left of the graph, but
it surprised me to see points out there until I noticed the scale
change.

  For the Google trends, try looking for `java programming' or `written
in python' to avoid picking up the island and the popular comedy troupe.