Python's popularity statistics

[Raymond Hettinger]

Theory:
> For all who are interested, I wrote a couple of python scripts that helped
> extract newsgroup activity from the comp.lang.* hierarchy, and this can be
a
> rough guide to the popularity and usage of the big programming languages.

New Fact:
This thread has generated a lot of activity on c.lang.py.

Conclusion:
This thread has made Python more popular than ever.