Your suggestions, ideas, comments, etc… for improving the statistics and results.

Some ideas various people have suggested:

• ohloh.net – we need a way to do this though, their API doesn’t cover it.
• Technorati – their API apparently has problems with “C++”
• krugle.com – looking into it.

Some languages I’m considering:

• Forth
• Actionscript.

Beyond the New Black took a look at the way people talk about this being the new that and applied it to programming languages. It turns out that

• C is the new assembly
• Java is the new COBOL
• SQL is the new HTML
• Ruby is the new PHP

Suggestion: include the raw numbers behind these graphs so that others can make their own versions. For example, I’d like to see a pie chart.
Suggestion: include historical data. For example, there was a time when FORTRAN would have been at the top of this list.

I’ll probably do something with the raw numbers… what I’m not quite sure… we’ll see. It’ll probably take the form of some kind of widget that you can include on your own site, and specify some aspects of.

Historical data would be fantastic, but very difficult to obtain. Suggestions for how to do so would be welcome. Even services like Google’s trends seem to be fairly limited in the data they contain.

I started to respond here or on dzone.com where I found the link to this research… but my little essay got away from me. So I posted it as a blog entry at CIO.com.

Thanks Esther – I had a look and responded there.

nice site, good metrics. a suggestion…. the pages and graphics are too wide. even at full screen on a 1280×1024 monitor horizontal scrolling is required. not good. may I suggest a new layout that works with 1024 widths. ...better yet smaller, but I understand the dilemma.

I’ve made some significant changes, including a more small-monitor friendly format, and a timeline widget.

How about Coldfusion? Should be a fairly easy term to isolate.