The Programming Language With The Happiest Users

Okay, it's a couple of months old, but recently appeared on the radar: The Programming Language With The Happiest Users .

I scraped the top 150 most recent tweets on Twitter for the query “X language” where X was one of {COBOL, Ruby, Fortran, Python, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, Haskell, Lisp, C}.
Then I asked three people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to verify that the tweet was on the topic. If so, I asked if the tweet seemed positive, negative or neutral.

Not highly scientific, but amusing read. Especially the Hey why isn't PHP listed comments.

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Re: The Programming Language With The Happiest Users by hangon (Deacon) on Sep 04, 2009 at 18:47 UTC
Interesting. I did a quick tally from the comments to that blog, and ran the same statistic for all languages mentioned with 2 or more positive or negative comments. Ok, this is not very scientific either, or statistically significant, but note that only comments dated before Sept 4th were counted, so any inspired by this thread would not skew the results. (Yeah, its a slow Friday) `Percent Number of Positive Comments Java ==== 20 5 Cobol ========== 50 2 Ruby ========== 50 2 Lisp ========== 50 2 PHP ============== 71 7 Python =============== 75 4 Perl ================= 85 20` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: The Programming Language With The Happiest Users by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2009 at 21:12 UTC
Nice remix-analysis!	[reply]
Re: The Programming Language With The Happiest Users by Muggins (Pilgrim) on Sep 14, 2009 at 07:56 UTC
The graph is really interesting. I used to have this theory that Perl and Lisp were the languages users loved most and that PHP wasn't even close, so this backs up my theory nicely, thankyou very much! Must be the quirkiness. Haskell and Fortran a minor surprise though :)	[reply]