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Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?
Mar 26, 2012
dnewbie
Mar 26, 2012
James Miller
Mar 28, 2012
Kevin Cox
Mar 28, 2012
Jesse Phillips
Mar 28, 2012
Kevin Cox
Mar 30, 2012
Stewart Gordon
Mar 30, 2012
H. S. Teoh
Mar 31, 2012
Chris NS
Mar 31, 2012
Stewart Gordon
Apr 05, 2012
Paulo Pinto
Apr 05, 2012
Stewart Gordon
Apr 05, 2012
Kagamin
Apr 04, 2012
Don Clugston
Apr 04, 2012
simendsjo
Apr 05, 2012
Jesse Phillips
Apr 05, 2012
Don Clugston
Mar 31, 2012
dnewbie
March 26, 2012
Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old
users running? Place your vote here
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f

March 26, 2012
On 26 March 2012 14:18, dnewbie <run3@myopera.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f

Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that <.<

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James Miller
March 28, 2012
>
> Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that <.<
>
> --
> James Miller
>

I like the spread.  Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+ where a group of people are sitting.


March 28, 2012
On Wednesday, 28 March 2012 at 20:57:25 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:
>>
>> Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket
>> is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer
>> than that <.<
>>
>> --
>> James Miller
>>
>
> I like the spread.  Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+
> where a group of people are sitting.

Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes).

Nice poll, thanks.
March 28, 2012
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Phillips <Jessekphillips+D@gmail.com>wrote:

> Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes).
>
> Nice poll, thanks.
>

I was factoring out the different number of years in each category.  I'm gonna try to create a bar graph with normalized years.

1 - ==================
2 - ==========
3 - ==========
4 - ========
5 - ========
6 - =======
7 + ==============

And with a little rounding

1 - ==================
2 - ===========
3 - =========
4 - =========
5 - ========
6 - ======
7 + ==============

Of course 7+ is not very informative.

Please note those graphs were very quick.


March 30, 2012
On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old
> users running? Place your vote here
> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f

I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories.  But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?

It would be good to do the poll again each year and see how the numbers compare.

Stewart.
March 30, 2012
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:
> >Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f
> 
> I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories.  But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
[...]

That would be cause of great concern.

Are the D1 people still around?


T

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This is not a sentence.
March 31, 2012
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:28:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:
>> >Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old
>> >users running? Place your vote here
>> >http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f
>> 
>> I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four
>> categories.  But does this really mean that we've attracted more
>> people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or
>> that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
> [...]
>
> That would be cause of great concern.
>
> Are the D1 people still around?
>
>
> T

Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still "D1 people" per se...  I'd say most have made the jump by now.  What I feel from the numbers is simply that we have a mostly steady rate of community growth.

March 31, 2012
On 31/03/2012 05:25, Chris NS wrote:
<snip>
> Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still "D1 people" per se...
> I'd say most have made the jump by now. What I feel from the numbers is simply that we
> have a mostly steady rate of community growth.

Depends what you mean by "community".  It's really a matter of how many people answered the poll.  The proportion the sample represents of the total number of D programmers is liable to get smaller as D becomes an ISO/ANSI/whatever standard, gains more and more third-party compilers and is adopted by more and more businesses, since many of the users will not be coming through Digital Mars and so are less likely to be active on these 'groups.  And so, in the long run, the poll results are likely to understate the growth in the number of D users.

Though publicising the poll in as many D-related forums as we can find will help to counter this....

Stewart.
March 31, 2012
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:17:55 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>
> I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories.  But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?


I want to believe that this is like a critical mass ready to explode :)


>
> It would be good to do the poll again each year and see how the numbers compare.
>
> Stewart.


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