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> …so Lisp and Erlang are well-liked on HN.

Umm... Maybe not? What if a post is titled "I don't like Lisp. Go Python!", and it hit the front page? How exactly do you infer the language being talked about?




Here's the data set of all submissions containing Lisp or Erlang in their title: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tnYpawKHOg7K1eKMaERw...

There are a few negative mentions, but they're in the minority.


Interesting natural language processing question. It took me a minute to notice that you actually included three languages in there.




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