[taoup] Programming Languages in FSD

Eric,

In section: Trends for the Future
Version number 0.92
  <http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s05.html>

There you mention programming language use with data from different
software directory web sites (freshmeat, sourceforge).  I may have a data
set you may or may not be interested in using in the book.

Here are the programming language statistics for the GNU/UNESCO Free
Software Directory <http://www.fsf.org/directory/>, a directory of free
software available for the GNU and GNU/Linux OSes.

If you need any more information on the data or the Directory let me know
or contact the Directory's maintainer Janet Casey <jcasey-mXXj517/[email protected]>.

The book looks really great.
/a

Software Packages in the Directory: 2384
Total Programming Language Entries in the Directory: 2729
Unique Programming Languages: 73

1242	C
 377	C++
 373	Perl
 135	Python
 115	PHP
 113	Java
  96	Shell
  35	Tcl
  29	(not available)
  27	Scheme (including Guile)
  22	Lisp
  13	C
  12	Assembly
  12	Tcl/Tk
  11	Ruby
  10	Emacs Lisp
   8	Objective C
   6	Ada
   5	Fortran
   5	Pascal
   4	Awk
   4	C++
   4	JavaScript
   4	PHP3
   4	SQL
   4	XML
   3	Objective Caml
   3	x86 assembly
   2	Eiffel
   2	Forth
   2	Haskell
   2	lex
   2	M4
   2	Python
   2	Q
   2	TeX
   1	Assembly
   1	C#
   1	calc language
   1	cilk
   1	Common Lisp
   1	Delphi
   1	dtl
   1	Dylan
   1	erlang
   1	expect
   1	flex
   1	GEL
   1	HTML
   1	http://www.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectSource
   1	JavaScript 1.1
   1	Jython
   1	LaTeX
   1	Lua
   1	mercury
   1	ml
   1	Modula
   1	Nice
   1	Object Pascal
   1	Pike
   1	pliant
   1	rep
   1	S-Lang
   1	Sather
   1	Simkin
   1	Spline Font Database (SFD) format
   1	Text
   1	Tk
   1	Xbasic
   1	XSLT
   1	yacc
   1	Zope


How the data was generated

The information for the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory is
maintained[1] in text source files[2]. The data set wes generated by
reading all the %%source-language fields and splitting the data in each
field by their commas if they existed.  Verbose language entries were
converted to more general names (example: "ANSI C" or "GNU C" to just "C",
and anything with "Shell" like "Bash Shell" to just "Shell", etc.).  The
unique occurrence of each language was then counted (with sort|uniq -c).

1. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects//directory/
2. http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/directory/