"Fastest growing programming language"

Douglas Alan nessus at mit.edu
Mon Apr 2 20:16:35 EDT 2001


"David Allen" <mda at idatar.com> writes:

> > What's the source for Python being the "fastest growing programming
> > language"?  Just curious.

> Well, I don't want to disappoint you, but essentially there isn't
> anything behind that statement.

Nothing at all?  It *is* now being prominently reported on
www.python.org.

> Whenever people speak in vague absolutes like "fastest", "best",
> "most flexible", "best documented", etc, they're either lying to
> you, or they're in marketing.

True enough.  But sometimes it is interesting to look at the data that
they use to support their claims.  Not because I want to be convinced
of the claim, but just because the data is interesting in and of
itself.

|>oug



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