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How a broken elevator led to one of the most loved programming languages available today
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Google makes massive commitment to support more languages using AI
AI research looks to bridge gaps between signed and spoken languages
The SignOn project is using AI to develop a communication service that can automatic translate between signed and spoken languages.
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Programming languages: Java 19 arrives and here’s what’s new
Weeve Languages: A creative way to learn more than words
A clever concept from three Trinity graduates could be a challenger to Duolingo for language learning.
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IEEE’s Top Programming Languages of 2022: Python (and SQL)
Python remains on top but is closely followed by C. Indeed, the combined popularity of C and the big C-like languages — C++ and C# — would outrank Python by some margin.
Java also remains popular, as does Javascript, the latter buoyed by the ever-increasing complexity of websites and in-browser tools (although it’s worth noting that in some quarters, the cool thing is now deliberately stripped-down static sites built with just HTML and simple CSS).
But among these stalwarts is the rising popularity of SQL. In fact, it’s at No. 1 in our Jobs ranking, which looks solely at metrics from the IEEE Job Site and CareerBuilder. Having looked through literally hundreds and hundreds of job listings in the course of compiling these rankings for you, dear reader, I can say that the strength of the SQL signal is not because there are a lot of employers looking for just SQL coders, in the way that they advertise for Java experts or C++ developers. They want a given language plus SQL. And lots of them want that “plus SQL….”
Job listings are of course not the only metrics we look at in Spectrum. A complete list of our sources is here, but in a nutshell we look at nine metrics that we think are good proxies for measuring what languages people are programming in. Sources include GitHub, Google, Stack Overflow, Twitter, and IEEE Xplore [their library of technical content]. The raw data is normalized and weighted according to the different rankings offered — for example, the Spectrum default ranking is heavily weighted toward the interests of IEEE members, while Trending puts more weight on forums and social-media metrics.
Python is still #1 in their “Trending” view of language popularity, but with Java in second place (followed by C, JavaScript, C++ and C# — and then SQL). PHP is next — their 8th-most-trending language, followed by HTML, Go, R, and Rust.
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Should you trust the ‘5 Love Languages’ quiz going around on TikTok?
If you’re seeing TikTok posts with a circle made up of yellow, red, orange, blue, and green bars with a symbol in the middle, this may or may not be your first contact with American pastor and author Gary Chapman’s “5 Love Languages” concept.
The quiz in question lives on Chapman’s official site, and it’s probably harmless. If you’re curious about your own “Love Language,” try it. It’s fun.
Is it rooted in science? Not really, no. Is it a cult, or some other form of indoctrination? Also no. It comes from a bestselling book from 1992 called The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, by Chapman that millions of people have found insightful.
The Love Languages according to Gary Chapman are as follows:
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Physical Touch
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Acts of Service
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Words of Affirmation
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Quality Time
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Receiving Gifts
The online quiz asks you A vs. B questions in an effort to nail down your priorities, and zero in on the emotional needs your partner or partners need to address in order to make you feel loved, and maintain your relationship. Your quiz results may or may not even result in one dominant “Love Language,” so the utility of the quiz varies from person to person. But knowing more about your preferences, and knowing how a partner feels, allows all parties to rethink their relationship behaviors.
For instance, if you feel your top “Love Language” is quality time, and you have a spouse who professes to need gifts, that might explain a birthday fight in which your “gift” of a night in with Netflix wasn’t well received, even though the thought behind it was earnest. Common sense-wise, getting something like this out into the open could be a relationship-saving insight.
Chapman’s “Love Languages” concept may not be the the end-all be all of relationship wisdom, and his books aren’t the product of falsifiable studies. It’s also not the first work to sort the features of what’s known in social science as “relational maintenance” into five categories.
Social science research in this area includes — to cite just one example — Laura Stafford and Daniel J. Canary’s “Maintenance Strategies and Romantic Relationship Type, Gender and Relational Characteristics,” a study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships in 1991, the year before Chapman’s book. Their work, an example of “relational maintenance” research, involved asking 956 participants to fill out a survey. The researchers sorted the results into five “factor loadings of maintenance items”: “positivity,” “openness,” “assurance,” “network,” and “tasks.”
At any rate, social science research attempting to validate the general principles of Chapman’s book have actually shown promise. Nichole Egbert of Kent State University and Denise Polk West Chester University devised “A Validity Test of Chapman’s (1992) Five Love Languages” in 2006, published in the journal Communication Research Reports. They find that Chapman’s work, and the world of relational maintenance are simpatico. People acting based on Chapman’s advice, they assert, are engaging in “behaviors performed to enact intended relational maintenance.”
So like anything else you read online, you should be careful not to base your whole life around this quiz. But if you find useful wisdom in it, you’re not alone.