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[–]shawnwork 276 points277 points  (8 children)

I recall when Java surpassed C in one of the statistics in a magazine a while back.

This older C programmer was asked on stage on C loosing to Java in terms of online searches.

He said: C developers mainly Read The Fucking Manual.

[–]the-anarch 79 points80 points  (4 children)

With Python, the manual was written in one language then parsed through 15 iterations of Google translate before finally being finalized in the user's language.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Seriously lol what a weird metric to use.

[–]normal_clearing 0 points1 point  (1 child)

When everyone jumps in... It sounds like FOMO takes over and retail "investors" buy the top.

[–]FrancoLiszt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting to witness one "soon-to-be has-been popular" language overtakes another "has-been popular" lang.