[pypy-svn] rev 1842 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding

[hpk at codespeak.net]

Author: hpk
Date: Mon Oct 13 12:07:19 2003
New Revision: 1842

Modified:
   pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt
Log:
some tweaks, added more conferences, upped the Google-numbers
(i googled for   python programming    and got around 3 million
hits, perl programming gives around 5, java around 6 etc.pp.). 



Modified: pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt
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--- pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt	Mon Oct 13 12:07:19 2003
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 .. include:: crossreferences.asc
 
-FIXME_LAURA: currently writing this
 FIXME_NICO FIXME_ALASTAIR : proof-read it
 FIXME think about where to include Logilab and DFKI references
 
 Potential impact
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-The successful execution of the PyPy project will deliver a practical usefull 
-implementation of a Very-High-Level, Object-Oriented, Open Source programming 
-language. 
+The successful execution of the PyPy project will deliver a higly productive
+and flexible implementation of a Very-High-Level, Object-Oriented, Open Source 
+programming language. 
 
 This will impact software development in several important ways.
 
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@
 programming language.  PyPy's ObjectSpaces flexibility will be crucial
 in distinguishing "accidental" from "designed-in" characteristics.
 
-Here is the relevant mail from Guido van Rossum
+Here is the relevant mail from Guido van Rossum::
 
   Having participated in one PyPy Sprint, I am very happy with this
   project, and hope to see it going forward.  The PyPy team includes
@@ -368,10 +367,15 @@
 to spread information about the ongoing project, its unique process and
 technological impact:
 
-FIXME: ADD MORE conferences
+EuroPython/EuroZope (European Python Conference), 
+ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, 
+OSCON (Open Source Convention), 
+OOPSLA (Object-Oriented programming, systems, languages and applications) 
+PyCon (Python Developers conference), 
+FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting),
+ECOOP (European Conference for Object Oriented Programming)
 
-EuroPython, OSCON, PyCon, FOSDEM (Free and Open Source
-Developer European Meeting)
+FIXME: add more conferences
 
 Exploitation
 +++++++++++++
@@ -399,11 +403,11 @@
 
 	Jacek's counter has more than 43 000 registered users.
 
-Googling for 'python programming' gives 1,540,000 hits.  ('Python' gives
-ten million, but many of those Pythons are the actual reptiles.)
+Googling for 'python programming' gives 3,020,000 hits.  ('Python' gives
+ten million, but many of those Pythons are probably actual reptiles.)
 
 Compared to the most common languages these days, C, C++, Java and
-Visual Basic, there is certainly much less 'market penetration',
+Visual Basic, there is certainly less 'market penetration',
 and in some niches, languages such as PHP, Perl and SQL are popular,
 but Python is vastly bigger than the more obscure languages such
 as Haskell, OCaml, Smalltalk, ADA, Ruby etc.
@@ -416,7 +420,7 @@
 available as a Red Hat, or Debian package, or simply use the version
 of Python that came installed with their machine when they bought it.
 
-For what its worth, there are about 600,000 http visitors a month to
+For what it's worth, there are about 600,000 http visitors a month to
 python.org.  About one third of them are using the documentation,
 which is a fairly good indicator that they are trying to use the
 language, as opposed to lost souls, looking for python.com, a porn
@@ -443,9 +447,9 @@
 the Java Virtual Machine indicate that there are at least 10 thousand
 Jython users worldwide.
 
-175,000.  That's a lot of Python users.  Writing the language which
-they all use will have an enormous impact.  Since the PyPy development
-team has been in constant contact with the Python community, and its
+175,000.  That's a lot of Python users.  Greatly improving the language 
+which they all use will have an enormous impact.  Since the PyPy development
+team is in constant contact with the Python community, and its
 world-wide leadership, there is no friction or political resistence to
 PyPy.  The individual members of the consortium are among the most
 well-known and well-respected members of the Python community.  We
@@ -500,15 +504,3 @@
 
 .. [PEP1]  http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0001.html
 .. FIXME grab it for appendix inclusion
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