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Date: | 2005-02-21 (02:06) |
From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community |
On Sunday 20 February 2005 16:18, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote: > Part of the 27 ML projects are in fact Caml projects. Indeed, the following twelve seem to be written in OCaml: Unison, FFTW, MATHPLOT, WDialog, PXP, GeneWeb, SwiftSurf, FaCiLe, pxpvalidate, Camlserv, Lazy-L and JSON. I just had a look at sourceforge, which has far more projects (14,325 C, 14,813 C++ and 14,074 Java) by comparison, and the accredited language seems to be wrong much more often. Assuming that all of the 132 SML projects are actually in OCaml, this gives 155 projects OCaml, i.e. about two orders of magnitude less common that the most popular languages. Also, I think that web searches for "resume" and "CV" are likely to be inaccurate. Searching for "written in *" seems more reasonable. This gives: 792,000 Java 636,000 C 424,000 Perl 312,000 C++ 221,000 Python 92,900 C# 30,100 Ruby 20,300 Lisp 11,700 Scheme 5,240 ocaml 974 caml Again, OCaml is about two orders of magnitude below the most popular languages. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://ffconsultancy.com