Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:39 PM, David Kirkby wrote: >> Just for fun, here's what the TIOBE-using-only-google results are for >> our niche world of math software: >> >>  language   hits for +"language programming" >> >>   Octave    8320 >>   Sage        3180 >>   GAP         2780 >>   Singular  

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Boothby
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:05 PM, William Stein wrote: > > NOTE: Looking at results, GAP has way more false positives than Sage, > since "gap" is a common word that can occur in the context of > programming, e.g. "Bridging the Gap: Programming Sensor Networks with > Applications" is on the first p

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 02/16/11 03:16 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 02/16/11 03:31 AM, Eviatar wrote: Hello, I have been monitoring TIOBE, a programming language pop

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 02/16/11 03:16 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 02/16/11 03:31 AM, Eviatar wrote: Hello, I have been monitoring TIOBE, a programming language pop

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/16/11 03:16 PM, William Stein wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 02/16/11 03:31 AM, Eviatar wrote: Hello, I have been monitoring TIOBE, a programming language popularity index. Python has been experiencing extremely fast growth in the last few months, r

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 02/16/11 03:31 AM, Eviatar wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been monitoring TIOBE, a programming language popularity index. >> Python has been experiencing extremely fast growth in the last few >> months, rising to fourth place from sev

Re: [sage-devel] Rapid growth in Python popularity

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 02/16/11 03:31 AM, Eviatar wrote: Hello, I have been monitoring TIOBE, a programming language popularity index. Python has been experiencing extremely fast growth in the last few months, rising to fourth place from seventh in a year, just behind Java, C, and C++. It has also experienced the m