[E-Lang] programming language popularity according to prgjobs.com

[Steven J. Owens]

> on 10/18/01 12:17 PM, Zooko at zooko@zooko.com wrote:
> 
> > Good hack!  Bring a measuring tape and save time.  Also, computer book
> > publishers thoughtfully make page count correlate highly with value.
> 
> Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree with this. Herb Sutter's "Exceptional C++" is,
> AFAICT, mandatory reading for C++ programmers, and weighs in at a svelte 199
> pages, being about a quarter-inch thick. Similarly, Alexandrescu's "Modern

     I think (hope) that zooko's comment was tongue-in-cheek.  The
computer publishing world is in a sad state indeed.  The dog-killing
tomes are popular because they have wider spines, which means you get
more shelf advertising space.  Also, too many morons judge a book by
its weight (I hate to say it, but that trend has been going on for
decades, so somebody must be providing po$itive feedback to the
publishers).  Thank god for O'Reilly...

Steven J. Owens
puff@darksleep.com