May 2009 Archives

This one counts for double. Last month I had a lot of coursework to do so I didn't do a stats update, but I still kept all the data. Let's go to the charts:So views have been growing pretty steadily since the stats posts have started. At some point, there will be more of a push for popularity.The trendline shows a small increase over time, but  wouldn't get in a fuss about it.Can you guess when the bots started? Right now, the main editing bot, ImplSearchBot, edits way more pages than it needs to. A fix has been planned, but the owner of the bot hasn't had time. Anyone who would like to help can talk to Short Circuit about it.This stat is heavily influenced by the bots as well. More human edits should be coming up with the addition of language feature parameters to the language template. It might be nice if someone could fit those features into a spiffy-looking div (talk to Short Circuit about your plans). Once that is all worked out, we may even get a new sidebar link.This one is taking a hard hit with the bots. We were over 60 back at the beginning of the year, but now we are down to single digits. We either need more people using the site, or fewer edits from the bots. Both would be best.Now on to the top ten lists:Ten most popular tasks by all-time views:

1. isNumeric
2. Assigning Values to an Array
3. Change string case
4. Tokenizing A String
5. Execute a System Command
6. File I/O
7. Sorting an Array of Integers
8. Bubble Sort
9. Creating an Array
10. Creating an Associative Array

Bubble Sort and Creating an Array have swapped.Ten most popular tasks by all-time edits:

1. Creating an Array
2. IsNumeric
3. Apply a callback to an Array
4. Conditional Structures
5. Empty Program
6. String Character Length
7. User Output - text
8. User Input
9. Control Structures
10. Creating a Window

Sum of Array dropped off the list and Creating a Window entered at number ten. Empty Program, User Output - text,  and Conditional Structures moved up the list.Top ten most prolific languages on RC by number of examples:

1. Tcl 291
2. Python 255
3. Ada 224
4. C 220
5. Perl 213
6. OCaml 203
7. ALGOL 68 196
8. Haskell 196
9. Java 193
10. D 182

Ruby (at 162) was pushed off the bottom of the list by Tcl coming out of nowhere and implementing all but four tasks on RC. All others stayed in the same order, but with more examples.

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