;Task: Sort the most popular computer programming languages based in number of members in Rosetta Code categories. Sample output on 02 August 2022 at 09:50 +02
Rank: 1 (1,565 entries) Phix Rank: 2 (1,558 entries) Wren Rank: 3 (1,531 entries) Julia Rank: 4 (1,507 entries) Raku Rank: 5 (1,500 entries) Go Rank: 6 (1,466 entries) Perl Rank: 7 (1,409 entries) Python Rank: 8 (1,402 entries) Nim Rank: 9 (1,254 entries) J Rank: 10 (1,211 entries) C ...;Notes: * Each language typically demonstrates one or two methods of accessing the data: :::* with web scraping (via http://www.rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=5000) :::* with the API method (examples below for [[Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity#AWK|Awk]], [[Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity#Perl|Perl]], [[Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity#Ruby|Ruby]], [[Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity#Tcl|Tcl]], etc). * The scraping and API solutions can be separate subsections, see the [[Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity#Tcl|Tcl example]]. * Filtering wrong results is optional. You can check against [[Special:MostLinkedCategories]] (if using web scraping) ::If you use the API, and do elect to filter, you may check your results against [[Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_popularity/Full_list|this complete, accurate, sortable, wikitable listing]] of all '''{{PAGESINCAT:Programming Languages}}''' [[:Category:Programming Languages|programming languages]], updated periodically, ''typically weekly''. * A complete ranked listing of all '''813''' languages (from the REXX example) is included here ──► [[RC_POP.OUT|output from the REXX program]].