From roy at panix.com  Fri Dec  3 17:32:10 2010
From: roy at panix.com (Roy Smith)
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:32:10 -0500
Subject: [python-advocacy] Python popularity at Project Euler
Message-ID: <1291393930.20169.31.camel@santogold.corp.amiestreet.com>

I'm  not 100% sure how to interpret the rankings, but at
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=statistics, it looks like of
the people who submitted solutions for Project Euler problems, Python is
the 2nd most popular language, behind C/C++ (which they lump into a
single category).  By eye, it looks like:

13327 C/C++
11929 Python
7864  Java
4225  C#
2558  Haskell
2276  Ruby

then a long tail after that.

What's surprising here is the big spread between Python and Ruby, since
overall the two seem to track more closely in popularity.  I'm guessing
it's a domain-specific thing.  Python is more for the math folks, Ruby
more for web?  I suspect that would also explain Haskell's relatively
high ranking.