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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
