How many WTFs per language?

Recently I've had to work with PHP an increasing amount. I've not been enjoying it. A few recent IRC conversations also got me thinking - is there an entirely arbitrary but kind of fun (and hey aren't they all arbitrary, really?) metric of programming language FAIL / coder FAILs per-language ?

So on a whim, I decided to invent one: number of entries on The Daily WTF which mention a given language.

Here we go - "web" languages only, numbers correct at time of writing:

• .NET - 13,000
• Java - 11,300
• PHP - 8,100
• Javascript - 6,020
• Perl - 3,520
• Python - 2,270
• Ruby - 1,570
• Coldfusion - 459

Or in chart form:

So what does this prove? Well, nothing - to draw any conclusions at all, we'd have to normalise this for all kinds of factors such as

• number of coders / lines of code using each language (anyone have a decent set of figures?)
• average experience level of coder (I'm pretty sure that more beginners use PHP than Perl, for instance)
• you name it

...but it is kind of fun. Let the flamewar commence continue!

"Folksonomy" : The Most Irritating Word On Teh Intarweb!

It's official!

At least, according to YouGov that is.

And the second and third most annoying words on the internet?
"Blogosphere", followed by "blog". "Wiki" came in tenth - so evidently wikis still have some way to go before people are sick to death of them. Maybe as they gain more traction in the enterprise, the word will rise through the ranks?

So next time you trumpet the social software manifesto, bear this in mind...