Irrational Exuberance

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I used Google Insights to look at the global search popularity for a dozen programming languages. Although I wasn't inspired with any particularly valuable insights, its still fairly interesting to see the distributions.

You are responding to this comment written by Diana on August 15th 2008, 22:40.

The leaders in the chart are countries that don't often get programming literature translated fast enough in their language, or would rather find information online than buy a book on the matter (especially when books are at $30). Engineers there are more prone to look for information online than lets say American or Western European engineers. At the same time, it is clear that some countries, like India and Russa, may have more software engineers than others. That does not demonstrate that the language is more popular there, its just that they have a higher number of engineers period. While both Java and Objective C are popular in India according to these charts, who is to say Objective C is not used by 20% of the engineers only while Java is used by 90%. I'm not sure the charts are really telling much.

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