Since this discussion is going on about the popularity of a programming language.
I would like to know views regarding the best language for scientific programming especially in terms of user friendliness, resources available, graphics and robustness to handle large numerical and simulation problems. Thanks & regards Sachin ************************************************************************ Sachin Kumar Sharma Senior Geomodeler -----Original Message----- From: python-list-bounces+ssharma84=slb....@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+ssharma84=slb....@python.org] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:38 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Python use growing fast From: "Gerry Reno" <gr...@verizon.net> > On 01/10/2011 08:31 PM, Katie T wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: >> >>> On 1/10/2011 1:02 PM, MRAB wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/01/2011 20:29, Dan Stromberg wrote: >>>> >>>>> I invite folks to check out Tiobe's Language Popularity Rankings: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html >>>>> >>> That's somehow derived from web searches, not from any real data >>> source. Look how far down JavaScript is. >>> >> Any measure is arbitrary and subject to biases, what methodology would >> you prefer ? >> >> >> Katie >> > > Measuring the "Buzz" about a language is actually a pretty good way to > gauge its popularity. Well, not exactly. C and C++ are older than many other languages and probably many of the web pages that contain "programming C" are very old and don't reflect their current popularity. On the other hand, newer languages are more attractive for book publishers because they can sell more books about Ruby than about C, because for C there are already very many books written so there is a bigger intrest to promote the newer languages, not just because they are better, but because there are interests involved. Talking about interests, Java and DotNet are more popular than many other languages, but we all know why, and we also know why PHP has such a big success although it is a bad language, as we all know why Window has a bigger success than other operating systems... so the popularity contest is good, but for something else than we want to prove. A programming language popularity contest is like a beauty contest for finding the most intelligent girl. Octavian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
