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Jeffrey Kunce kuncej at mail.conservation.state.mo.us
Wed Dec 8 11:24:07 EST 1999


[Al Christians]
> Python is running a healthy 4th in the Linux.Com scripting
> languages poll.

[Barry A. Warsaw]
> Looks like your message has rallied the troops!  It's now running
> a distant second behind the 4-letter word of scripting languages :)
>
> Perl   42.65% (633)
> Python 16.31% (242)
> PHP    15.84% (235)

[Tim Peters]
>Take heart:  Deeper analysis of the data demonstrates that the Python votes
>are of much higher quality.  

And maybe, Python votes are more honest? 

~10 hours later:
PHP  59.90 % (3306) 
Perl  20.87 % (1152) 
Scripting languages suck  6.99 % (386) 
Python  6.34 % (350) 

It looks like PHP is good for writing a form-submission-bot

  --Jeff





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