Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Ron Stephens]

Alex Martelli wrote:

....Hmmm, I think it's all my fault ...(snip-snip)..I basically turned
off the Python newsgroup (and other netnews) to concentrate on other
activity...(snip-snip).....Some day or other, I'll be back with my exaggerated
posting volume... just
got a few books & projects to complete first......

I noticed. It's sure good to read your posts again, Alex ;-)))))

Looking forward to "Python in a Nutshell" and the "Python Cookbook",  but
missing intelligent posts and exponentially rising graph-lines for
comp.lang.python usage in the meantime'ly yours,

Ron Stephens
http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html



> "Hans Nowak" <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:3C2B7276.88339BE7 at earthlink.net...
> > Ron Stephens wrote:
>     ...
> > > Sourceforge projects, about 1300 to 80). By the way, Just van Rossum's
> > > http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/ graph of Python
> > > newsgroup coverage seems to show a slight decline from over 6000 per
> > > month in late-middle 2001 to the current 3500 or so I see on here. Mr.
> > > van Rossum said he may not be able to update these any more due to some
> > > Yahoo change; anyway, am I interpreting these numbers and trends
> > > accurately? Will the Python newsgroup usage turn upwards again? Does it
> > > matter?
>
> Hmmm, I think it's all my fault -- in late-middle 2001 I basically turned
> off the Python newsgroup (and other netnews) to concentrate on other
> activity
> (all Python-related).  And, these days, less and less often do I find myself
> somewhere with a newsreader and no other applicable tools (but it still
> happens from time to time, e.g. today).
>
> Some day or other, I'll be back with my exaggerated posting volume... just
> got a few books & projects to complete first...
>
> Alex