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The article shows a number of possible factors for measuring popularity...
And many of those factors can also indicate that the language is overly complicated or that people simply aren't familiar with it enough to know the answer themselves and are therefore googling for answers. For example, I'm constantly googling about Python stuff because my familiarity with it is orders of magnitude less than my familiarity with C#. Now, does that make Python more popular? Certainly not!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm constantly googling about Python stuff because my familiarity with it is orders of magnitude less than my familiarity with C#
Which may be the reason we see most of these surveys indicate the more mature languages declining popularity.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've often felt that such "language ratings" carry an implicit bias against languages that are easy to learn and use.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base.
Methinks the quote belongs to the previous insider news 
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Yeah, thanks. Shows you how many people actually read this. 
TTFN - Kent
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Some of us have a day job...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base. I still don't think that language will ever catch on
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'I doubt I could have gotten away with either one,' says the father of the internet Use NetBIOS instead of that silly TCP/IP?
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Nah, IPX/SPX
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Whenever mega-hacks like the Yahoo! fiasco hit the news, inevitably the question gets asked as to why the IT security systems weren't good enough. The answer could be that it's not in a company's financial interest to be secure. A stitch in time costs too much?
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This applies to electronic voting systems to a much higher degree.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Twitter continues to inch its way to a sale process, and the latest developments come in the form of alleged bids from potential buyers. All purchase offers must be limited to 140 characters (or less)
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“Free speech in the age of the Internet is not really free,” journalist warns. "You have the right to free speech as long as you ain't dumb enough to try it"
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Investigations into rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of 1,000 liars won Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night at Harvard, where Nobel-winning scientists gathered to honor the strangest research of the year. "Science is the poetry of reality." (and these are the limericks)
Explaining that you want to put trousers on rats to a funding agency must have made for an interesting meeting.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of 1,000 liars
Well okay then... 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Explaining that you want to put trousers on rats to a funding agency must have made for an interesting meeting
Yes, but yet still getting the funds...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Known as the “Hunger Games” of computer programming, applicants must pass two online logic exams to be invited to a month-long orientation than runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week during which prospective students are given a series of increasingly difficult problems they must solve. "And may the odds be ever in your favor"
OK, it's better than a 21-day book at least.
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I think these days IT people failed to bring true creativity and waste their time in language creation. It may be a sign of a saturation time of an IT invention.
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Read the article; this is all about getting grant money from the government.
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Useless News and Worthless Reporting: Only those who show steady progress and certain stick-to-itiveness qualities are selected to enroll, typically about one-third of those invited to the orientation. So far, out of the 350 students who participated in an orientation, 250 have been accepted.
'one third', '250 out of 350'.
I guess the sunshine who wrote this went to mathcamp instead of a traditional math class. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Either that, or the other possibility you appear not to have considered - that the intake this time was above average.
It does say that typically a third of students receive an invite.
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That's not an education, that's a filter.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One of the most frequent requests we receive is to increase the number of colors that the Windows Console can support. We love nothing more than to deliver features you ask for! My life is complete.
I'm so glad that the feedback they listen to is, "we want more colours in the command shell"
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