Python use growing or shrinking

[yaipa h.]

All,

I have a rather practical, boring solution to this concern. 

Mentor someone, write a paper, present Python to your working group.
Get a little religion and go preach the word. If you haven't made an
honest effort to turn someone on to Python in the last six months don't
bitch if your programming Perl, et.al.

yaipa



"Greg Brunet" <gbrunet at nospamsempersoft.com> wrote in message news:<v2rhpd4d6p8f79 at corp.supernews.com>...
> 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