Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Small statistic Date: 30 Jan 2024 17:19:54 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 277 Expires: 1 Dec 2024 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de q/6IJPcfhd1wtiHhVZvMOwv8U21RiKU8xZ9uoTB4ocxxxT Cancel-Lock: sha1:bpZ4lTQCuFIYW2gLcJGc5tNksSY= sha256:N6dbmIX70P++0ZUUQ2OsG6exo029R3AaeY8fLihLNbU= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR The stats are based on data from the years between 2012 and 2022, approximately.. Some posts have not be taken into account for the following stats, eg., when they are missing on the server because they were cancelled or expired. OTOH, spam messages are also counted. Posts per year 2012 14092 2013 8926 2014 16383 2015 23411 2016 21078 2017 24089 2018 14170 2019 9235 2020 9341 2021 6093 2022 4450 Some From names that did not post in 2012 or 2013 and then appeared. 2014-01-20 Rick C. Hodgin 2014-07-08 Richard Heathfield 2015-04-02 jacobnavia 2015-12-12 Jerry Stuckle 2016-09-14 Thiago Adams 2017-02-21 Steve Carroll 2017-03-27 bartc 2018-06-04 Bart 2020-08-30 olcott Some From names (case sensitive) that disappeared (have not posted anything for months) 2012-12-05 Jens Gustedt (Jens, of course, is the author of "Modern C".) 2015-11-07 Bartc 2015-12-11 glen herrmannsfeldt 2016-06-07 Stephen Sprunk 2018-02-01 Jerry Stuckle 2018-05-28 bartc 2018-06-21 Steve Carroll 2018-07-05 supercat@casperkitty.com 2018-09-20 BartC 2018-10-29 Bill Cunningham 2019-03-01 Richard Heathfield 2020-02-25 Robert Wessel 2020-06-18 Mr. Man-wai Chang 2020-06-29 Richard Bos 2020-10-02 jacob navia (Jacob, of course, created LCC-Win32.) 2021-06-02 Rick C. Hodgin 2021-06-12 jacobnavia 2021-11-23 Ian Collins From names by the number of posts Keith Thompson 10922 David Brown 8514 Ben Bacarisse 8336 fir 6576 Malcolm McLean 6351 James Kuyper 6010 Rick C. Hodgin 5312 Tim Rentsch 5183 BartC 4208 supercat@casperkitty.com 4169 From names by the number of lines written by them David Brown 145573 Keith Thompson 99176 Rick C. Hodgin 83966 Ben Bacarisse 80379 James Kuyper 74212 supercat@casperkitty.com 66411 Tim Rentsch 61761 Bart 55293 Malcolm McLean 53193 BartC 49164 Selected words from the bodies C 42918 code 37777 think 25599 compiler 19587 function 18786 type 17642 language 17191 program 15679 standard 13896 value 13633 problem 13468 pointer 11321 functions 10021 C++ 9595 types 9531 number 9288 data 9281 memory 9114 implementation 9050 call 8831 compilers 8203 source 8091 written 8088 idea 7701 gcc 7631 question 7518 error 7351 values 7337 programming 6883 behavior 6761 library 6621 writing 6574 run 6563 pointers 6336 correct 6335 programs 6246 systems 5966 languages 5957 bits 5775 integer 5706 files 5547 syntax 5288 definition 5180 machine 5122 undefined 5039 issue 5019 char 5009 big 4984 variable 4978 address 4943 unsigned 4938 Windows 4918 struct 4787 expression 4757 output 4652 text 4622 space 4552 argument 4504 #include 4498 character 4405 Linux 4392 implementations 4362 names 4346 programmer 4139 loop 4077 statement 3999 bytes 3899 thread 3859 characters 3823 numbers 3819 user 3730 software 3727 feature 3714 solution 3708 programmers 3696 calls 3676 variables 3661 valid 3658 structure 3604 process 3590 static 3576 C99 3519 Standard 3518 macro 3431 ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========