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<P><FONT SIZE=2>[Stephan Deibel]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>#- For example, a September article in InfoWorld said "But the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- big winner</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- this time around is the object-oriented scripting language </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- Python, which</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- year's results."</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>How big are the chances that SourceForge numbers actually could be extrapolated to the rest of the universe?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>According to them (check software map, and look by programming language), and showing everything with a "developers choice for their project" share >= 2%: </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>C++ 18.5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>C 18.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Java 17.5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PHP 12.9</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Perl 7.2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Python 4.7</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Visual Basic 2.6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>C# 2.6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>JavaScript 2.6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Delphi/Kylix 2.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Unix Shell 2.0</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It also would nice to see a graph showing tendencies here.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>. Facundo</FONT>
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