Re: Fun fact: Before 1850, Lua was more popular than Python!

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 18:41, Scott Morgan <blumf@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12/17/2010 02:47 PM, luuk34 wrote:
>> On 17-12-10 15:33, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lua,python&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

>>> P.S. Sorry, could not resist posting this Friday evening post :-)

>> Thats why we probably all should be programming in C++
>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lua%2Cpython%2C+C%2B%2B&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

> Ruby is the clear winner of the scripting langugaes:
> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lua%2Cpython%2Clisp%2Cruby&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Note that the search is case-sensitive. So we probably should look at
this graph instead:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Lua,Python,Lisp,Ruby&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Ruby is still a winner though.

Also we can use the phrases:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Lua+programming,Python+programming,Lisp+programming,Ruby+programming&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Or:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Lua+language,Python+language,Lisp+language,Ruby+language,Assembler+language&year_start=1955&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Funny that in Russian books Lua (Луа) is more popular than Python
(Питон) until more modern time:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B0,%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=12&smoothing=3

Луа is not a Russian word, but Питон is (meaning the same kind of
snake as in English).

Alexander.