[Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

[Stephan Deibel]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Batista, Facundo wrote:
> [Stephan Deibel]
> 
> #- For example, a September article in InfoWorld said "But the 
> #- big winner
> #- this time around is the object-oriented scripting language 
> #- Python, which
> #- saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last 
> #- year's results."
> 
> How big are the chances that SourceForge numbers actually could be
> extrapolated to the rest of the universe?

Not very good, I think.  I suspect the vast majority of programmers have
never heard of source forge.  

I'm actually surprised that it's only 4.7% on source forge -- that seems
to indicate Python is doing quite a bit better in the non-open source
world than on SF.  Interesting... wouldn't be surprised if this is because
the speed myth has stronger hold among hacker types than business
programmer types.

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- Stephan