REPOST: Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Alex Martelli]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:53:41 GMT, Ron Stephens <rdsteph at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> > Now, my perception is that most Ruby developers run under Linux or some
> > other Unix. I wonder what percentage of Python developers run Windows,
and
> > what percentage run Linux? I have no idea, does anyone have a guess? If
you
> > put my back to the wall to make a prediction, I'd guess that more than
half
> > of us on this newsgroup use windows. Anyone?
>
>     Well, sure, worded that way.  I /use/ Windows.  I need something for
my
> games and while Linux suits 99.5% of my productivity needs it isn't quite
> there in the games market.

I don't do much gaming, but I still have to use Windows (mostly in win4lin
under Linux) for a few needs (e.g., SOME durned webpages that I need won't
show correcty under any browser except Internet Explorer).  Not to mention
that think3 is a mostly-Windows shop, too.

Linux is my preferred platform for most tasks, except that my firewall/etc
machine runs OpenBSD (sometimes security is more important than richness
of features, support for strange hardware, and so on).

Python runs just great on all of these platforms, and more besides.


Alex

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