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 |
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