January 2009 Archives

British online technical newspaper The Register has this very interesting article which shows statistics about new open source projects born in 2008. Numbers are provided by license tracker Black Duck Software

C is (unsurprisingly) first: 47% of open source projects born in 2008 use it.

What's most interesting, however, is that Perl is the first of the dynamic languages (excluding client-side scripting ones, i.e. JavaScript): 18% of new projects chose it (PHP is stuck at 11% and Ruby at 6%). Anybody who was saying Perl was obsolete now has his answer.

After reading larsen's facts, I challenged myself in this game. If you want to play, these are the rules:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or other mean (Twitter, Facebook ...).

So, some facts about me:

• I work as computer programmer. It isn't always great, but I think I'm blessed because I have the opportunity do do what I like every single day.
• I live in Maniago, which is located in North-Eastern Italy. In the past I thought I didn't like this place, but after seeing a lot of places in the world I'm now confident this is among the best where to stay. I maintain a web forum related to my town.
• I play the bass guitar in a brit rock band (the Gin Tonics), but don't really know much about it as I never attended a single lesson regarding bass or music in general.
• I believe "fair play" is fundamental in every aspect of life.
• I'm often worried for many things, but I rarely admit it if asked.
• I haven't got a best friend and I consider myself lucky for this, as there is more than one person who I regard as a best friend.
• Should I ever need to escape somewhere to stay for some time on my own, that place would be the Orkney Islands.

I know the rules want me to tag seven people, but the ones who come to my mind don't have a blog - so I have to skip this.part of the game. ;-) If you're reading this, I'd be happy if you consider yourself tagged and play.