Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Global Popularity of Programming Languages, here is a quick summary:

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 Will Larson on August 17th 2008, 14:18.

Steve,

I find that at some point its necessary to abandon the quest for complete and accurate disclaimers. Rather than making a classical hasty generalization, I'd say rather than I'm making an unstated (and undefended) assumption that search results for a programming language's name have some correlation with the popularity of the programming language.

I think its a fairly reasonable assumption to make, and it seems that most others agree with that premise, since the complaints have largely been about the specific terms searched for, instead of with the concept at large.

Certainly I'd like to make a stronger case for this metric, but since we haven't even defined what popularity means, it doesn't seem like a trivial--nor particularly valuable--endeavor.

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