Ever wonder what we talk about here? I just finished a word frequency study of this site. I counted the number of pages that contained any particular word. These are the top ten frequently occurring words of at least six letters.
10844 category
7225 people
6411 because
6300 should
6200 software
5815 things
5803 programming
5796 something
5460 really
5349 system
The count is the number of pages upon which the words can be found. Here are all 354 words that appear on at least a thousand pages.
Interesting, eh? -- WardCunningham
Have WikiNames been filtered from this list? -- StijnSanders
No, their parts are treated as separate words so ProgrammingLanguage counts as one for Programming and one for Language.
It looks like they confirm the topic of the Wiki as PeopleProjectsAndPatterns. Structures, systems, patterns, problems all score highly.
Following the example of WikiWordStatistics, we find in this list some of the ExtremeProgramming practices:
- always * little * change (IncrementalDevelopment)
- working * someone * enough (FortyHourWeek)
- understand * interesting * problems (SpikeSolution)
- making * common * source (CollectiveCodeOwnership)
- everything * changes (ReFactoring)
- approach * specific * examples (UserStory)
- [not] complex * unless * necessary (DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork)
- research * meaning * actual * coding (SpikeSolution)
- client * involved (OnsiteCustomer)
some AntiPatterns:
- author * against * various * testing
- projects * control * programmers
an observation:
- practices * delete * values
finally, for the SmugSmalltalkWeenies:
- smalltalk * created * technology
This was just crying out for a bit of PoemWiki. http://downlode.org/wiki/wikiwordspoetry.cgi -- EarleMartin
I've looked into BNC (British National Corpus, which is one of the largest English corpus in the world) word frequency list at http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/bnc-readme.html (BrokenLink) try (http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/) and chose those with at least six letters and listed the top ten:
128393 should
125430 people
103003 because
91141 between
75588 through
67219 become
66894 government
61912 system
60607 number
60498 however
Compare this list with the one above. (One of the interesting things to notice is that "system" is a very common word in general English written or spoken.)
-- JuneKim
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