How popular is Python, anyway? (was: Long Live Python!)

["Jürgen A. Erhard"]

>>>>> "phil" == phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

    phil> On 11 Jul 2001 21:20:02 GMT, Gergo Barany <gergo.barany at gmx.net> wrote:
    >> phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
    >>> [snip flamebait crap]
    >> 
    >> If anyone is going to to respond to this thread, *please* take
    >> comp.lang.c out of the Newsgroups: list. We don't do advocacy here.
    >> Followups set.

    phil> My post was an entirely objective statistical summary, and contained 
    phil> no subjective or opinion-based data at all.

    phil> If you think that facts are "crap" and hard statistical analysis

I wouldn't call those numbers you presented "hard statistical
analysis".  Not that those numbers aren't corrent... but what the
"analysis" lacked is some analysis of how good a measurement those
numbers are given what they are used for.

Things like "margin of error" come to mind.  (But then again, that is
something you rarely hear about in statistics presented in the "news"
either)

Bye, J

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