> For the Python world though, there does seem > to have been a change. A decade ago in this newsgroup, there were > frequent references to standard library source. I don't see that > much anymore.
Popularity has a price. A decade ago only hackers were exposed to python who are happy to chat about the source code but these days average computer users (my grandma) frequently come across python and ask questions from a user perspective. So I'd think your observation is correct that the ratio of source related posts to non-source related posts on this list went down but the reason is not because the total number of source related questions decreased but because the total number of non-source related questions increased. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
