From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F00BC8E for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:06:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1L26KrV011725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:06:20 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1D32xn-0004rS-G9 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:06:19 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:07:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502210207.44772.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4219421C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 pons:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 wdialog:01 pxp:01 geneweb:01 sourceforge:01 sml:01 accredited:98 frog:98 lisp:01 caml:02 caml:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: 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