derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 12 2006 | o'reilly, programming languages, c#, java, ruby, python
Interesting chart showing book sales related to various programming language groups over a 3 year period. This is only for one publisher, so it's biased by the quality / availability of material within a given subject area. Nonetheless, the data is quite interesting. Surprises:
- VB books outsold C# through 2005 (where are the VB developers hiding?!).
- Python sales are stagnant (would expect that it would be following a Ruby-like curve).
- Perl has withstood the attack of Ruby and Python.
- Java's Tiger release (generics), during an upward trend, did very little to maintain the trend, and C/C++ sales grew during the downturn. Huh?
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2007 | blogs, rss, linq, c#, programming languages
Outstanding blog by a C# compiler writer. Good general language coverage as well as LINQ stuff.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2006 | google, code, programming languages, funny, blogs
Hilarious post (if you're in the top 1% of nerddom, that is) on language suckage using Google Code Search as a source.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2005 | anders hejlsberg, c#, programming languages
Wonderful series of articles with Bruce Eckel (Java guru) and Anders Hejlsberg (C# guru), I rediscovered them today -- originally read them a year or two ago.
Quoted: Lead C# architect Anders Hejlsberg talks with Bill Venners and Bruce Eckel about delegates and C#'s first class treatment of component concepts.
- ChrisWei - Sep 13 2006
- derek - Sep 13 2006
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I am very surprised these are so flat. I would expect much more variation over this amount of time.
Yeah, indicative of how large (and dedicated / consistent) the audiences are in each group.
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