On Jan 7, 9:53 am, Berco Beute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool! We knew it would happen one day :) > What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of > sexiness? > > What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's > popularity in 2004 (seehttp://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html). > Equally interesting is the question why it dropped shortly after. > > 2B
>From http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index(and http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/images/tpci_trends.png ) # Q: What happened to Java in April 2004? Did you change your methodology? A: No, we did not change our methodology at that time. Google changed its methodology. They performed a general sweep action to get rid of all kinds of web sites that had been pushed up. As a consequence, there was a huge drop for languages such as Java and C++. In order to minimize such fluctuations in the future, we added two more search engines (MSN and Yahoo) a few months after this incident. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
