This good paper seems to be ignored on reddit. I think it's worth a look particularly for us in a non-mainstream language community.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yon3i/social_influences_on_language_adoption_pdf/


Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yon3i/social_influences_on_language_adoption_pdf/

Some people on Lambda the Ultimate have criticized the quality of the sources of the data, but despite those sources not looking the best, I think the data is acceptable:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4593

One of the things said by the paper is:

>Result 8. Curriculum matters more than college major in predicting which sorts of languages programmers know.
This result implies that adherents of a particular language family, such as functional or logic programming, should emphasize introducing developers to these concepts and languages while they are still in school. While developers may be willing to learn new languages throughout their career, they do not appear nearly so inclined to learn new paradigms.<

At the university closest to me I see many various CS teachers pushing hard for functional languages (but some courses require languages like C or even assembly). So maybe future students will be less willing to use imperative/OOP languages.

Bye,
bearophile

It isn't surprising, but is still bizarre to me how many people correlated static types with some negative things like expressivity and enjoyment.

Static types rok so much in every way.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:19:23 +0200
"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator@gmail.com> wrote:

> It isn't surprising, but is still bizarre to me how many people correlated static types with some negative things like expressivity and enjoyment.
> 

I agree. C++ and Java have damaged many minds.

> Static types rok so much in every way.

Hellz yea.

>Still other of our results contradict common beliefs: we find significant developer unease with static type systems.

Python/JS script kiddies?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:43:24 +0200
"Kagamin" <spam@here.lot> wrote:

> >Still other of our results contradict common beliefs: we find significant developer unease with static type systems.
> 
> Python/JS script kiddies?

And PHP monkeys.