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All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend. I hope it is just normal fluctuations for Ruby and not the expected shit-hits-the-fan reaction when Ruby starts getting adopted in the enterprise ( sorry couldn't resist 
). If blogsphere is any indication PHP is still a rising star and getting lots of traction in the industry.
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July 12th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
I don’t really have a dog in this fight b/c I like using all three languages. However, I am curious how you accounted for Javascript posts. Did you include a reductive search as well? Even that wouldn’t work very well since there are likely a considerable amount of posts about Javascript AND one of the three languages you are comparing.