langpop.com in Tim Bray's OSCON keynote
It was neat to see "langpop.com" on the screeen during Tim Bray's talk at OSCON (contains a link to the video):
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/08/05/Annotated-OSCON-Keynote
The talk itself was an overview of the state of programming languages. However, 15 minutes is not enough time to do the topic justice, but if you're not a language geek, it's not a bad survey, and I really like his style: he's fair when he points out the good and the bad. Like him, I am sick of PHP and do not care to use it any time in the near future, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of good things to be said about it. In any case, I'm honored that Tim used langpop.com as a source for his talk.
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about 3 hours later:
A suggestion for langpop, by the way: you should look at http://www.ohloh.net/languages
about 13 hours later:
Yes, I've seen that and talked with them, but last time I looked, they didn't have an API to access that data.
1 day later:
David,
Dunno when you last checked, but the Ohloh API currently supports getting this data. I wrote a sample script to fetch it -- http://pastie.org/249788. Feel free to email me for any help/info.
We here at Ohloh would be equally honored to be mentioned on langpop ;-).
-jay (ohloh)
1 day later:
Cool, thanks Jason, I'll look into including it!