On Dec 22, 12:11 pm, walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote: > I have read that python is the world's 3rd most popular language, and > that python has surpassed perl in popularity, but I am not seeing it. > > From what I have seen: > > - in unix/linux sysadmin, perl is far more popular than python, > windows sysadmins typically don't use either. > - in web-development, php is far more popular than python - it's not > even close. > - when I did a search on dice, I found over 20X more jobs advertised > for ruby on rails developers, than for python dango developers. > - application development is dominated by java, c/c++, and maybe a > little visual basic. > - as I understand it, fortran is still the most popular language for > numberical programming. > > Of course, these are just observations on my part, nothing scientific > about it. But, I can't help but wonder how python's popularity was > determined. I suspect that a lot of people use python as a secondary > skill. For example, I use ms-word, but I'm not an ms-word > professional. > > Please note: I am not confusing popularity with quality. I am not > saying that php is better for web-dev, or anything like that. I am > just wondering how python is rated as being so popular, when python > does not seem to dominate anything.
Sooner or later, we will remember those good old days where python was our "secret sauce"... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
