--- Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: > > I don't predict a huge upswing in Slavic-writing > > Python programmers after PEP 3131, even among > > children. >
I slightly misspoke here. I meant to say children and young adults, i.e. students up to early university age. > Are you predicting a sharp upswing in > Chinese-writing (or any language) > Python programmers after PEP 3131 among children? Yes, and of course, it's just wild speculation on my part. A couple Chinese people have already weighed in on this thread, so I'm curious to hear their predictions too. I don't how many Chinese people under the age of 20 use Python now, but if it's, for example, 1000 now, and five years later, it's 15,000, I'd consider that an upswing, and I consider that realistic. > If so, why certain > groups of children and not others? > Different forces, some of which I already mentioned: 1) There are more young Chinese people than young Slavic people. 2) Slavic teenagers use an alphabet that is at least structurally similar to ascii English (roughly the same number of characters), so they have less to gain from Unicode identifiers. 3) I would think more Slavic young people have exposure to English as a second language than Chinese, although that may be rapidly changing. On the other hand, it could be that PEP 3131 is irrelevant to all of this speculation, and it really just comes down to getting more documentation about Python written in Chinese, and then waiting for a critical mass of community to create some kind of snowball effect. I still think that's a long way off in most countries, not just China. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
