by Breck Yunits
July 16, 2022 — C and R are two famous programming languages whose name is a single letter. In an effort to retire this practice (😉), I've made an infographic to show that all the letters are taken.
Data used in this post:
| title | id | appeared | rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| A+ | aplus | 1988 | 876 |
| B | b | 1969 | 242 |
| C | c | 1972 | 2 |
| D | d | 2001 | 48 |
| E | e | 1997 | 229 |
| F# | f-sharp | 2005 | 53 |
| G | labview | 1986 | 92 |
| H | h-lang | 2019 | 3232 |
| I | i | 2012 | 2097 |
| J | j | 1990 | 131 |
| K | k | 1993 | 214 |
| L | l | 2013 | 3404 |
| M | mumps | 1966 | 96 |
| N | n | 1990 | 3636 |
| O | o | 1986 | 1952 |
| P | p | 2013 | 786 |
| Q | q | 2003 | 268 |
| R | r | 1993 | 10 |
| S | s | 1976 | 344 |
| T | t | 1980 | 567 |
| U | u | 2013 | 3307 |
| V | v | 2019 | 161 |
| W | w | 2019 | 3233 |
| X | x | 2021 | 3124 |
| Y | y | 1981 | 1344 |
| Z | z | 2019 | 3105 |
I made the viz in Keynote and by hacking on this repo.
Analyze this data yourself in Ohayo