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Line 191: This language is not neutral, is vague, and does not go toward the point of the article. If the user base is 'enormous' and 'highly active', it must be assumed that this is in contrast to that of C#. Does anyone have a citation? Measuring the user base of a language is incredibly hard. You can look at the number of published C# books versus the number of Java books on Amazon. So "Java language" yields 2k hits versus 400 hits for "C# language." Alternatively if you look at Google hits for the same query its 29M hits versus 3M hits. MSN shows 36M hits versus 250K hits. Sourceforge records 16K Java projects and 2.5k C# projects. All of these samples are subject to error and source bias, but they all seem to indicate that the number of Java developers is substantially larger than the number of C# developers. The statement is somewhat vague because although no one knows the real numbers, we can still make comparisons between the two user bases. The point of the article is a comparison of C# and Java. One of the ways that the languages differ is that Java seems to have a greater mindshare. [[User:Tbjablin\|Tbjablin]]

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