Python use growing fast

[Octavian Rasnita]

From: "Gerry Reno" <greno at verizon.net>
> On 01/10/2011 08:31 PM, Katie T wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/10/2011 1:02 PM, MRAB wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/01/2011 20:29, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I invite folks to check out Tiobe's Language Popularity Rankings:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>>>>
>>>   That's somehow derived from web searches, not from any real data
>>> source.  Look how far down JavaScript is.
>>>
>> Any measure is arbitrary and subject to biases, what methodology would
>> you prefer ?
>>
>>
>> Katie
>>
>
> Measuring the "Buzz" about a language is actually a pretty good way to
> gauge its popularity.

Well, not exactly.
C and C++ are older than many other languages and probably many of the web 
pages that contain "programming C" are very old and don't reflect their 
current popularity.

On the other hand, newer languages are more attractive for book publishers 
because they can sell more books about Ruby than about C, because for C 
there are already very many books written so there is a bigger intrest to 
promote the newer languages, not just because they are better, but because 
there are interests involved.

Talking about interests, Java and DotNet are more popular than many other 
languages, but we all know why, and we also know why PHP has such a big 
success although it is a bad language, as we all know why Window has a 
bigger success than other operating systems... so the popularity contest is 
good, but for something else than we want to prove.

A programming language popularity contest is like a beauty contest for 
finding the most intelligent girl.

Octavian