Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail?

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 7, 2012 @01:25AM from the larry-ellison-blesses-them dept.

magicmat writes "UC Berkeley EECS graduate researchers Leo Meyerovich and Ari Rabkin have compiled an interesting data set on the sociological aspects of programming language usage and adoption. 'Socio-PLT' is the result: compiling survey results from Berkeley's recent 'software engineering' massive online open course, SourceForge, and two years of The Hammer Principle online surveys, they have discovered some interesting phenomenon about what we, as programmers think about our languages, and why we use them. You can head over and explore the data yourself using cool interactive visualizations, and even fill out a survey yourself to have your say."

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Re:Girl Analogy by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-07 01:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Programming languages must have a certain elegance, a flow or symmetry that entices the mind. Pascal/Delhpi have always done that for me.

Pascal/Delphi is great if you are in to necrophilia.