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C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends?

Dan Lorenc writes "Using the StackOverflow.com data dump, I measured the activity of various programming languages throughout the week. The results: Ruby and Python saw a rise in questions asked on the weekend while C# and Java saw a dropoff in activity on the weekend. This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use. Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a programming language for a project at work."

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  1. Re:I think you're doing it wrong.. by ultrabot · · Score: 5, Informative

    C/C++ aren't good either, but for small solutions C can be useful while C++ has the disadvantages of both C and object-orienting combined.

    This betrays utter lack of understanding of C++. C++, when done properly, has very little of the problems of C (type unsafety and tedious manual memory management come to mind first).

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