[E-Lang] measurement of programming language popularity in the open source community

[Steven J. Owens]

> Popularity is defined as (record hits * URL hits * subscriptions)^(1/3), as
> described in the freshmeat FAQ:

     This sounds suspect.  While freshmeat is great, I suspect most
folks use freshmeat mostly for "discovery" of new projects or of old
projects they didn't know about.  Likely a great percentage of the
time existing users don't go through freshmeat to get to the project
home page.

Steven J. Owens
puff@darksleep.com