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Just wondering around and see which countries have most programmers :D

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This started as a light “where are you from?” thread by and collected short, mixed replies — a few playful entries (for example from and ), some regional comments (see ) and an early attempt at summarising by . That mix is exactly why the page is friendly but not a reliable demographic dataset: many answers are one‑line, some are jokes, and the sample is self‑selecting and time‑bound.

If the goal is a usable summary rather than a chatty list, a few pragmatic approaches work well:

  • A single‑choice poll (one post per country) or a canonical first post that asks for a fixed format (Country: , City/state: , Year posted:) makes aggregation trivial.
  • Encourage profile fields for country and link them to a short moderator‑run export or manual tally.
  • Treat any auto‑extracted results as provisional and always do a manual pass to remove jokes, duplicates, and ambiguous answers.

A quick, practical way to build a historical tally from the archived HTML is to scrape short post bodies and match them against ISO country names (the script below is a heuristic — adjust selectors to the forum HTML and review results manually):

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pycountry, difflib, re
from collections import Counter

html = open('thread.html', encoding='utf8').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

blocks = [t.get_text(' ', strip=True) for t in soup.select('div.postbody, td.postcontent, p')]
candidates = [b.splitlines()[0].strip() for b in blocks if 1 < len(b.split()) <= 4]

country_names = [c.name for c in pycountry.countries]
matches = []
for cand in candidates:
    cand_norm = re.sub(r'[^A-Za-z ]','',cand).strip()
    best = difflib.get_close_matches(cand_norm, country_names, n=1, cutoff=0.75)
    if best:
        matches.append(best[0])

print(Counter(matches).most_common())

Caveats: treat the outcome as historical and anecdotal, respect member privacy (don’t republish personal data), and expect manual cleaning. For representative, current developer geography use larger, dedicated surveys rather than a single forum thread.

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Member Avatar for sillyboy

Well I am from Australia.

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

India.

Member Avatar for TheGathering

Usa

Member Avatar for Cerberus

England.

What about yourself?

Member Avatar for Ezzaral

Mars.
My wife is from Venus.
Go figure...

Member Avatar for hollystyles

I came from the inside of a star.

Member Avatar for DenisOxon

Down to earth in Oxford, England

Member Avatar for jbennet

Im from surrey/hampshire , england but my soul is in scotland, so to speak.

Member Avatar for ProgrammersTalk

England.

What about yourself?

USA :)

Member Avatar for freddypyther

I'm from Spain, but I'm sure I'll move to USA when I finish my career and have money enough.

Member Avatar for Infarction

USA ftw :icon_biggrin:

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LOL! cmon, none of you guys from Arab or middle eastern.. sigh...? These people are genius man!!

Member Avatar for jbennet

there is quite a lot of indian people here ive noticed

Member Avatar for hamada_1990

i am arabic i am from sudan programmer normally hackers and game patches and cracks

Member Avatar for tonakai

I am from Turkey

Member Avatar for jbennet

Turkey is cool. Ive been there twice on holiday. The people are really friendly

Member Avatar for tonakai

Turkey is cool. Ive been there twice on holiday. The people are really friendly

ofcourse we are! ;)

Member Avatar for eskelsen

Brasil.

Member Avatar for zandiago

From the caribbean...luving my sunshine

Member Avatar for bobbyraw

where in the carribean Zandiago, i am from the carribean too, Jamaica to be exact.

Member Avatar for Noha Mahmoud

I'm from Cairo, Egypt

Member Avatar for maddog39

Pennsylvania, United States here...

Member Avatar for hopalongcassidy

California (S.F. Bay area)

Member Avatar for Carlo_g12

philippines! im a student, new at programming, really having a hard time (coz of attention span issues) but still trying hard. hehe~

Member Avatar for hollystyles

If everyone filled out their profiles properly this thread would be redundant. :)

Member Avatar for scru

From the caribbean...luving my sunshine

Which island? I'm from St Vincent

Member Avatar for Jishnu

India

Member Avatar for puneetkay

India

Same hea! INDIA :D

Member Avatar for varagpraveen

INDIA

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