Programming Languages sorted by Wilson Score Interval.10 points·by carbonesc·14 anni fa·1 commentsHere are the HN polled programming language favorite [1] and disliked [2] scores sorted by the Wilson Score Interval [3] at 85% confidence: Language Ups Downs 85% Confidence -------- ---- ----- -------------- Python 2881 115 0.980 Clojure 424 21 0.974 C 912 54 0.971 Haskell 488 31 0.968 Lua 140 10 0.961 Lisp 298 32 0.948 Erlang 152 18 0.941 Ruby 1607 220 0.937 C# 758 104 0.937 Scheme 177 25 0.932 OCaml 76 10 0.932 Smalltalk 62 10 0.918 Scala 222 40 0.918 Other 182 37 0.908 D 50 13 0.880 JavaScript 1310 415 0.871 CoffeeScript 347 110 0.870 Forth 37 12 0.855 Groovy 60 23 0.842 Assembly 97 43 0.828 Objective C 304 205 0.772 Perl 294 210 0.763 SQL 92 70 0.750 Rexx 11 7 0.749 Ada 23 17 0.744 Delphi 32 26 0.733 Pascal 24 24 0.696 C++ 503 540 0.694 Tcl 30 33 0.682 Shell 58 90 0.623 Fortran 20 31 0.618 PHP 602 1006 0.612 Actionscript 87 168 0.583 Java 514 1011 0.580 ColdFusion 32 85 0.521 Cobol 10 66 0.365 Visual Basic 41 589 0.256 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961 [3] http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 (Hopefully I got my maths right. Using 95% confidence did not change the order significantly.)1 commentsPost comment[–]yorhel·14 anni fareplyAlso an interesting graph from the two polls: http://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/two-interest...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961 [3] http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 (Hopefully I got my maths right. Using 95% confidence did not change the order significantly.)