Python use growing fast

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.710.1294716287.6505.python-list at python.org>,
 Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

> About JavaScript's popularity:
> 1) I've been getting the impression that JavaScript is popular in a
> manner similar to how x86 machine language is popular: That is, it's
> used all over, but few people hand code it (though admittedly, there
> are probably more people hand coding JavaScript than people hand
> coding x86 assembler today)

One of the surprising (to me, anyway) uses of JavaScript is as the 
scripting language for MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/).