by Breck Yunits
October 28, 2018 — As the chart below shows, the number of programming languages beginning with a certain letter varies as much as 10x by letter.
Below is the same list, sorted by popularity.
A curious observation: why are A and C both ~3x more popular than B?
Data used for these charts:
firstLetter | count |
---|---|
a | 59 |
b | 22 |
c | 75 |
d | 20 |
e | 28 |
f | 38 |
g | 30 |
h | 15 |
i | 23 |
j | 27 |
k | 15 |
l | 45 |
m | 57 |
n | 31 |
o | 30 |
p | 69 |
q | 10 |
r | 33 |
s | 76 |
t | 24 |
u | 13 |
v | 13 |
w | 9 |
x | 10 |
y | 4 |
z | 6 |