Hello There

I'm writing sometheing about the D programming language and I say the  D community is still growing and growing and to proof it I refer to the increasing number of posts on the newsgroups. But it's not that I actually know "in numbers" that it is really growing ... Is there somewhere a survey of the number of posts on the newsgroups? So I can proof it with real data ;-)

Thanks
Jan

Jan Hanselaer wrote:
> Hello There
> 
> I'm writing sometheing about the D programming language and I say the  D community is still growing and growing and to proof it I refer to the increasing number of posts on the newsgroups. But it's not that I actually know "in numbers" that it is really growing ... Is there somewhere a survey of the number of posts on the newsgroups? So I can proof it with real data ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> Jan 

Ben hinkle's pages had a graph.  If you could get a hold of him, maybe he could share with you the code he used to generate the graphs.

http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dnews.html

I don't know that # of posts really reflects # of users as well as # of unique names you find per year.  # of posts is interesting too, though, since it does give an idea of the amount of time people are spending on D.  Both numbers are useful for getting a picture I think.

--bb

Jan Hanselaer skrev:
> Hello There
> 
> I'm writing sometheing about the D programming language and I say the  D community is still growing and growing and to proof it I refer to the increasing number of posts on the newsgroups. But it's not that I actually know "in numbers" that it is really growing ... Is there somewhere a survey of the number of posts on the newsgroups? So I can proof it with real data ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> Jan 

Here is an old graph up until February 16th or so:

http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/dposts.png

/Oskar