Nothing beats "E"- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29

"sexy e" - 924,000 hits

But oh poor Erlang

"sexy erlang" - 2 hits (both of them telling me: erlang isn't sexy)


P@

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Tim Spalding
Sent: Fri 26-3-2010 4:21
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie
 
"Ruby" may be sexy but "sexy ruby on rails" gets only four hits. As
for "sexy python," well, no comment.

T

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Andrew Hankinson
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> Just out of curiosity I tried them in quotes:
>
> "sexy ruby" - 72,200
> "sexy python" - 37,900
> "sexy php" - 25,100
> "sexy java" - 16,100
> "sexy asp" - 14,800
> "sexy perl" - 8,080
> "sexy C++" - 177
> "sexy FORTRAN" - 67
> "sexy COBOL" - 8
>
> I tried "sexy lisp" but the results were skewed by speech impediment fetishes. Which I'd say is even less strange than 8 people thinking you can write sexy COBOL.