Language comparisons

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

Seeing as we've been talking about Ruby recently (and often about other 
languages)

I stumbled over this site that's performed a large scale survey of 
various programming languages and why people use them:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/socioplt/viz/index.html
> Why does one language succeed  and another one fail? To answer
> questions like this, we are examining sociological aspects of
> programming language theory: socio-PLT. This varies from
> establishing first principles to building socially-optimized
> languages. The interactive visualizations here show some of our
> recent efforts for a quantitative analysis of programming language
> perceptions.

The visualisations are a little clunky, but should have a lot of 
interesting things to poke around with.

Lua scores nice and low for "This language has a very dogmatic community" :)

Scott