Python's popularity statistics

[Patrick W]

claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) writes:

> NASA is only one of several organizations which employ
> languages such as Python, Tcl, Rexx, ... in (soft)
> real-time control of multi-million-dollar vehicles.

The functional language Erlang ( http://www.erlang.org ) was designed
for (soft) real-time control of multi-million dollar
telecommunications systems, and has been very successful.  It, too, is
dynamically typed.

> "Static typing" is ... well, it's a more complex issue
> than naive observers believe.

Indeed.