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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: media statistics
Message-ID: <7050011@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 17:57:02 GMT
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> Here's another one of my highly scientific studies of media reporting
> in the computer science journals.  The data base contains about 60,000
> computer science magazine articles from about Feb '89 to Feb '90.  
> 
> #articles containing the word
>	#times the word is in the database
>		the word searched on

> 5357	17254	C
> 4317	 8086	Basic
> 1537	 2861	structured
 . . .

Thoughts about those numbers:
  A. How about B?
  B. I'm suggesting that outlines like this one will give
     false counts.
  C. Regardless, interestin

      jim "the JAM" miller