Rewrites
July 17th, 2009
Tonight I searched for the phrase “rewrote it in X” where X was any of the following languages. The languages are listed in the order that they came to mind. The number of hits Google showed is listed. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. What do you think is going on here?
Rewrote it in…
| Ruby | 213 |
| Python | 277 |
| Java | 60,500 |
| C++ | 316 |
| Scheme | 1 |
| Smalltalk | 2 |
| C# | 138 |
| Haskell | 6 |
| Erlang | 3 |
| OCaml | 2 |
| VB | 29,500 |
| C | 624 |
| Javascript | 10 |
| Prolog | 0 |
| COBOL | 3 |
| awk | 5 |
| Ratfor | 1 |
| Lisp | 5 |
What is completely tripping me out is that these numbers changed while I was composing this post. And something especially odd is going on with the Java numbers, because now Google is only finding 292 hits for “rewrote it in Java” instead of 60k hits like it did 40 minutes ago. I would chalk this up to an error on my part, except the hits for VB are still the same at about 29,500.