Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-05 Thread digz
On Sep 4, 1:53 pm, "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > On Sep 4, 8:35 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 -, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> >Here are the statistics from Google Trends: > > >> >http

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan Olson
The expression "faint praise" comes to mind. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-04 Thread Zentrader
>So, all the decline means is that the number of searches > for "Python programming" releative to all searches done is declining. Which makes sense. There are an many python tutorial/code snippet sites, sites that list those type of python sites, as well as the python.org site which means that a

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-04 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
George Sakkis wrote: > On Sep 4, 8:35 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 -, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >Here are the statistics from Google Trends: >> >> >http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html >> >> >From the graph

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-04 Thread Matimus
> So I think we can at least say from the chart that searches combining > the terms 'python' and 'programming' have been falling, by some > unquantifiable amount (it don't _look_ like much!?), relative to the > number of total searches. I think it is the search volume relative to the total number

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-04 Thread George Sakkis
On Sep 4, 8:35 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 -, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here are the statistics from Google Trends: > > >http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html > > >From the graph, it seems more accurate to say th

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-04 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 -, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here are the statistics from Google Trends: > >http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html > >From the graph, it seems more accurate to say that Perl is undertaking Python. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
> This chart is showing that amount of python programers is smaller every > year :( I saw an article maybe a year ago, regarding "best careers" that completely contradicted previous articles I had seen in years gone by. It said that the number of people in programming and related jobs would decli

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread Asun Friere
On Sep 4, 11:49 am, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who knows? The graph has no labeling or calibration for the y-axis, so > it's meaningless. > Well yes, some calibration would make it more meaningful, but it is at least labeled 'Search Volume.' What's worse the calibration chang

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread nghai
I believe that the time-trend chart show the normalized volumes, relative to the total Google search volume, so a decreasing trend doesn't mean a decreasing absolute volume. The trends of "Los Angeles", "China" searches are decreasing over the last three years, but the absolute volumes should not b

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread Erik Max Francis
Asun Friere wrote: > How do you figure that? Isn't the chart showing the frequency of > those particular terms combined as a fraction of the total search > volume on Google? Who knows? The graph has no labeling or calibration for the y-axis, so it's meaningless. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread Asun Friere
On Sep 4, 10:49 am, Sulsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 - > > Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here are the statistics from Google Trends: > > >http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html > > This chart is showing that amount of python programers is

Re: Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread Sulsa
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:32:23 - Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the statistics from Google Trends: > > http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html > This chart is showing that amount of python programers is smaller every year :( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Python is overtaking Perl

2007-09-03 Thread Ben
Here are the statistics from Google Trends: http://benyang22a.blogspot.com/2007/09/perl-vs-python.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list