> Clojure fared particularly well (ahead of Scala and Groovy) in the poll I ran due to many of the voters coming from the LISP friendly HackerNews community. Th

> Clojure fared particularly well (ahead of Scala and Groovy) in the poll I ran due to many of the voters coming from the LISP friendly HackerNews community. The DZone poll which drew a slightly larger number of voters (primarily Java devs. from the dzone community) favoured Groovy, with Scala in second place, followed by Clojure. In order to get a better picture of popularity spanning both polls I combined the results and plotted a chart. You don't combine results to get a better picture of popularity. You ask which of the two of them is less likely to be skewed with manipulated results. DZone is a grossly commercialized entity compared to hackerNews, with rings of users upvoting stuff they want to promote, and privileges for moderators of the "subzones". A better measure of popularity is O'Reilly's hard copy book sales for the year to March 2012: http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2012/03/Lang_QTR_Units_PrevYear_a.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2012/03/Lang_QTR_Units_PrevY... Just how would anyone fiddle that data?