On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:11:38 -0500 (EST), Stephan Deibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > Two possibilities come to mind. 1) 14% of developers in the survey > > work at companies that use Python. How many developers are there? > > Assume that 14% of them use Python. But what's a good estimate for > > "number of developers." Pretty rough -- number of survey respondents > > at company != number of Python programmers at company, and %age > > companies != %age of programmers. > > Supposedly there are 5-6 million developers world-wide (by various > estimates; I've no idea whether to believe them). If you just multiply > out naively you get 700K-840K Python programmers. There certainly are > vastly more one person Python projects than large ones, so this may not be > all that far off. > > > 2) 64% of companies use Java, 4.5 > > times more than Python. Find out how many Java programmers there are, > > divide by 4.5. > > I've seen claims of 3-4 million java programmers so that's 666K-888K > Python programmers. Interestingly, this matches up with the above abuse > of statistics.
Thanks! I didn't know the numbers from which to guestimate, and it's nice that they are in agreement. This seems like a satisfactory back-of-the-envelope answer. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com