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<br>Now, there're '''501''' programming languages. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 09:40, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
<br><br>The decrease in the number of programming languages is due to combining the
:::* '''UC++'''
:::* '''µC++'''
:::* '''ΜC++''' (unicode version)
language into one: '''µC++'''. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 20:45, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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: The way identically ranked languages (identical in the sense that they have the same number of entries) is sorted in the order in which they appear first in the Rosetta Code list. Thus, some languages aren't ranked fairly because of a (weak) sorting artifact of having the same number (of entries). Strictly speaking, if the following were true:
:::* hog 97
:::* dog 72
:::* auk 72
:::* ape 4
:::* cow 72
:::* gnu 72
The ranking should be:
:::* 1 hog
:::* 2 (tied) dog
:::* 2 (tied) auk
:::* 2 (tied) cow
:::* 2 (tied) gnu
:::* 6 ape
with all 2<sup>nd</sup> place names marked as ''tied'' for 2<sup>nd</sup>, and nobody marked as 3<sup>rd</sup>, 4<sup>th</sup> or 5<sup>th</sup>.
<br>These duplicates (tied for placement) would make a good addition to this task (to rank languages ''correctly'') -- or lacking that, a good Rosetta Code task that can stand by itself.
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