People around the world have come up with all kinds of strange laws in their efforts to maintain law and order. The following is the list some of the strangest laws in effect around the world

1. In Thailand, it is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear - how do they actually find that??
2. In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm if you live in an apartment – what??
3. It’s also illegal for a chicken to lay an egg on Friday or Saturday in Israel – and it does then??
4. Picking your nose on Saturday is forbidden in Israel – what???
5. In Denmark, attempt to escape from prison is not illegal, however, if one is caught he is required to serve out the remainder of the term – they are rally nice people!
6. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store, or in a bank if handling foreign currency
7. In Ireland, it is illegal for a student to walk through Trinity College without a sword – they actually go to college to war?
8. In Texas, ‘when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone’ – and when do they proceed actually?
9. No man may purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife in Pennsylvania
10. In Pennsylvania, ‘any motorist driving along a country road at night must stop every mile and send up a rocket signal, wait 10 minutes for the road to be cleared of livestock, and continue’ – I am not going to that country with my bike! never
11. In Paulding, Ohio, a policeman can legally bite a dog to quiet him - eek
12. In Oxford, Ohio, it’s illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man’s picture – no comments!!
13. A man cannot go outside wearing un-matching jacket and pants in Carmel, New York – what?
14. In Cresskill, New Jersey, cats must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts
15. It’s illegal for a husband to make love to his wife if his breath smells like garlic, onions, or sardines in Alexandria, Minnesota. The wife can, by law, force her husband to brush his teeth
16. In Michigan, a woman’s hair legally belongs to her husband. Consequently she’s not allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission – of course.. I mean this should be implemented all over the world.
17. All dogs are required to have their hind legs tied during the month of April in Massachusetts – and why is that so?
18. Carrying an ice cream cone in our pocket is prohibited in Kentucky – poor boy
19. In Natoma, Kansas, it’s against the law to practice knife-throwing at men wearing striped suits – hey, give me a break
20. In Zion, Illinois, it’s illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals kept as pets
21. In Chicago, eating in a place that is on fire is forbidden – and who does that? I mean, its fire all over and you are eating… my last supper
    
22. In Kenilworth, Illinois, roosters must be at least three hundred feet away from any residence if they wish to crow- now rules are for the animals also… poor guys
23. It is illegal for a cab in the city of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses
24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament in UK – if somebody dies… hang him till death..?
25. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon
26. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t want him to know, though you don’t have to tell him anything you don’t mind him knowing – I don’t have any problem you knowing everything.. So I don’t tell you anything!!
27. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk – fish… drunk… how… why???
28. Royal Navy ships that enter the port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London – that guy must be lucky
29. In UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants- even if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet – eek…
30. In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard inside a police station – crazy… is it legal to play golf?
31. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad
32. In UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle
33. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed
34. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six feet long
35. In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset
36. In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
37. In Boulder, Colorado, it is illegal to kill a bird within the city limits and also to ‘own’ a pet – the town’s citizens, legally speaking are merely ‘pet minders’
38. In Vermont, women must get written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth
39. In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague
40. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the king; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the queen – in case she needs the bones for her corset

There are many more. It was really amusing that these kinds of rules exist.

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The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition.

The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query is executed for the regular Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube web search for the last 12 months. The web site Alexa.com has been used to determine the most popular search engines.

The number of hits determine the ratings of a language. The counted hits are normalized for each search engine for the first 50 languages.

Besides the rating of programming languages, there is also a status indicated in the TIOBE chart. Programming languages that have status “A” are considered to be mainstream languages. Status “A-” and “A–” indicate that a programming language is between status “A” and “B”. If a programming language has a rating that is higher than 0.7% (yes, this number is arguable but we had to fix it somewhere) for at least 3 months it is rewarded status “A”. The first two months the programming language will receive status “A–” and “A-” respectively. The opposite holds for languages that go from status “A” to status “B”. So if a language had status “A” 2 months ago, a rating of “0.607%” last month and a rating of “0.687%” now, it will have status “A–”.

Programming languages that are very similar are grouped together. Currently the maximum of the hits of the individual languages is taken into account when calculating the ratings of groupings. In the future we will do a better job and take the union (from mathematical set theory) of all the hits.

The long term trends for the top 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.

No wonder Java tops the ranking. And it will continue to hold that position for some time to come. What I am surprised to see there was Pascal is gaining popularity and people are using it nowadays. You can see the list of top 50 languages here.

The “Break it Down” Blog has a lengthy post on Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java? Comparing Java Web Frameworks is hard because so many people are passionate about the framework they know best. Add a couple more like Flex and Ruby on Rails and its downright difficult. Nevertheless, this post is good in that it contains a lot of pretty trend graphs and it looks like the author has done some good research. It’s likely the folks that will scream foul are the ones that did poor in the comparison (Tapestry and Stripes, I’m talking about you).

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