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From: duggar@mit.edu (Keith H Duggar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: 26 Sep 2004 19:12:00 -0700
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> I've come to this thread late, so I'm not completely sure about the 
> exact specs of the code, but here's my take on a Python version.  It 
> comes in at a svelt 10 lines, and I think it's quite readable.  I'm sure 
> I'm missing something though.
> 
> import sys
> 
> words = {}
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
>     for word in line.split():
>         words[word] = words.get(word, 0) + 1
> 
> words = [[x[1], x[0]] for x in words.items()]
> words.sort()
> words.reverse()
> 
> for word in words[:10]:
>    print word[0], word[1]

Sweet. Python get's my vote for most readable in this case.
The "for ... in ..." construct is very nice. It saves a lot
of time and a lot of error prone indexing code. Thanks for
posting it.