{"id":1714,"date":"2013-03-26T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2013-03-26T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:46:06","slug":"some-external-validation-on-expressive-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2013\/03\/26\/some-external-validation-on-expressive-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Some external validation on expressive languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got pointed to a really interesting and relevant data source by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i3enhamin\">Ben Racine<\/a> and wanted to post a short update to note <strong>the correlation of <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2013\/03\/25\/programming-languages-ranked-by-expressiveness\/\">my post<\/a> with a new piece of external information<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The information? The input from ~2,500 developers over on Hammer Principle on the statement, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hammerprinciple.com\/therighttool\/statements\/this-language-is-expressive\">This language is expressive.<\/a>&#8221; I mapped the top 10 and bottom 10 languages to my own median-based ranking, showing only the top two popularity tiers for simplicity, and got this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dberkholz-media.redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/files\/2013\/03\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1715\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2013\/03\/26\/some-external-validation-on-expressive-languages\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/files\/2013\/03\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers.png\" data-orig-size=\"1181,520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/files\/2013\/03\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers-300x132.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/files\/2013\/03\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers-1024x450.png\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1715\" alt=\"expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers\" src=\"http:\/\/dberkholz-media.redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/files\/2013\/03\/expressiveness_weighted_top_tiers-1024x450.png\" width=\"553\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it&#8217;s a very clear correlation \u2014 all expressive at one end, all poorly expressive at the other end, and a mix in the middle (indicating a bit of noise).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<div class=\"acc_license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"by-sa\" \/><\/a><\/div><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"><Work rdf:about=\"\"><license rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" \/><\/Work><License rdf:about=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Attribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Reproduction\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Distribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#DerivativeWorks\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#ShareAlike\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Notice\" \/><\/License><\/rdf:RDF>-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got pointed to a really interesting and relevant data source by Ben Racine and wanted to post a short update to note the correlation of my post with a new piece of external information. 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