Python use growing or shrinking

[Greg Brunet]

Just as a point of information, I was reading this article about Java
and the recent ruling that MS must include it in Windows & .NET
(http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/21/java/print.html). It
had a link to this site (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm) which ranks
Python as a "B" status language with declining popularity.

There's only a general discussion of their methodology, and I'm not
arguing that one should choose a language solely because of it's
popularity or rate of increase/decrease (and what's up with RPG having
the second fastest growth rate!?!).  Still, it's it provides another
viewpoint on 'the language wars'.

For my own (very unscientific) study, I did a simple search on the
following in the Chicago Tribune's on-line ads:

c#    7
c++    - search engine can't handle it ;)
java    62
PERL    12
Python    2
Visual Basic    45

--
Greg