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Pointless graph. Ignores the way people look for info on their language. PHP is well documented so PHP users just go to php.net and know the docs will be ther
by sjs 17y ago
Pointless graph. Ignores the way people look for info on their language. PHP is well documented so PHP users just go to php.net and know the docs will be there. I like the feel of Python and Ruby more than PHP but you don't have to look at Google Trends to know that PHP is far, far more popular than Python and Ruby combined.
- swolchok 17y agoPython is well documented so Python users just go to http://docs.python.org/ http://docs.python.org/ . Don't know about Ruby, but I suspect you could make that argument about any language.
- sjs 17y agoYes Python also has great docs. Ruby not so much. There's a command line tool for viewing Ruby docs called ri that I imagine many Rubyists use more than ruby-lang.org. (Ruby's docs improved when Programming Ruby was first written but since then I haven't noticed any significant effort to further improve them. I reach for one of my Programming Ruby books or PDFs before going to http://ruby-lang.org http://ruby-lang.org , might just be me but I doubt it!)
- wgj 17y agoActually, looking at the Regional Interest section, it looks like a much tighter cluster in the US than most other countries (with Python in the lead.) It's possible that PHP is just far more popular outside the US, and you can learn that from Google Trends.