Python's popularity statistics

[Aaron K. Johnson]

In message <3DF803BE.5175A7EC at alcyone.com>, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> "Aaron K. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> > Yes...let me be more precise. I'm not saying that there is a
> > coefficient x by
> > which you can multiply the number of posts to comp.lang.python and get
> > the
> > magic number of python programmers. What I am saying is that in some
> > real way,
> > the greater the number of comp.lang.python posts, the greater its
> > overall
> > presence and use. Dig?
> 
> Probably.  Greater activity (non-spam activity, anyway; the raw numbers
> don't give that) probably indicates greater popularity.  But what people
> are rightly telling you is that the relation between newsgroup traffic
> and the popularity of its language may not be the same for each
> newsgroup.
> 
> In other words, even if there's a strong positive correlation between a
> language and its newsgroup traffic, that doesn't mean that the raw
> traffic figures for different newsgroups are comparable in a way that
> correlates to their relative popularity.

Sorry, this posted reply is somewhat redundant--forgive the bandwidth.

But wouldn't a correlation from freshmeat open source project language use
stats with my initial hunch about newsgroup density indicate something?

The data were taken from the freshmeat projects listing by language page.

There is a strong correlation between newsgroup stats and freshmeat project
stats. I think it speaks for itself :) (one thing we can observe is that,
compared with their place relatively high on the news stats list, Lisp
programmers talk more about lisp than they program in it, at least open source)

Yeah, yeah, I know open source is not the only programming, and I know
freshmeat is only a slice sample of the programming world!

Best,
Aaron.
 

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