[logback-dev] Scala or Groovy?

[Ceki Gülcü]

Since the May 12th, when there were 50 or so respondents, another 50
people took part in the logback-DSL survey bringing the total
participants to a little over 100. The new results are

Do not care for either 37.9%
Groovy 29.1%
Scala 28.2%
Other 4.9%

I find the stark changes in the results quite fascinating because over
a uniform population survey results should converge very quickly, say
after 50 or respondents, so that adding new participants should not
significantly influence the outcome, at least only by a few percentage
points at most. So either the population of respondents was not
uniform, in the sense that those participating the beginning were
somehow different than those participating later. Alternatively, the
web-survey system we are using is vulnerable to manipulation so that
few users can unduly influence the survey's outcome.




On 12/05/2010 7:57 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As you probably know already, there is an ongoing survey about the
> preferred language for the logback DSL. See [1].
>
> Here are the results so far.
>
> Do not care for either 25%
> Groovy 25%
> Scala 50%
>
> Interestingly enough, most respondents express a strong preference for
> Scala over Groovy even if Groovy seems to have a larger user base.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ceki
>
> [1] http://ceki.questionform.com/public/logbackDSL
>