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Comment by henning | Hacker News Reader

Meaningless chart/data is meaningless.

It's fair to say that the chart is meaningless in terms of "what's a good programming language?". But there is clearly different sentiment about the different languages on twitter, and the differences are statistically significant. From a market research point of view, I think there's an interesting signal here.

To obtain a laugh from the following perl code: 1)run 2)obtain output 3)run output 4)repeat 2-4

#!/usr/bin/perl

$x = <<'LOL';

#Meaningless chart/data is meaningless

$x =~ s/\x67less/\x67ful/g;

$x =~ s/((7less)|(7ful))(.+?)((7ful)|(7less))/$5$4$1/g;

print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n\$x = <<'LOL';\n${x}LOL\n";

print $x;

LOL

#Meaningless chart/data is meaningless

$x =~ s/\x67less/\x67ful/g;

$x =~ s/((7less)|(7ful))(.+?)((7ful)|(7less))/$5$4$1/g;

print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n\$x = <<'LOL';\n${x}LOL\n";

print $x;

Quines are fun and all, but I'd love to see a polyglot quine in Cobol, C, Haskell, Prolog, and Brainfuck.

Sighs that my quine is so 1999...

Well C is reasonably easy to decompile. If you simplified the syntax a bit, wrote a really simple decompiler with it, perhaps so simple it really only works on one binary, that binary being its own executable... it could work.

Indeed. For one thing, who says the people tweeting about a language actually use it?

Well they probably are, the valid question is "how extensively". I never felt a need to tweet about languages I use to code, why?

So I think this represents a percentage of happy vs unhappy neophytes, with arcane languages being at the top since religious aspect kicks in :)

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