Talking to marketing people about Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roy Smith wrote:

>> 5. Number of job listings on internet job listing boards.
>
> I just did a quick survey for Perl and Python jobs on some of the big IT
> job boards.  I came up with:
>
> Site          Perl      Python
> Hotjobs       2756       655
> Monster      >1000       317
> Dice          4828       803
>
> I'm not sure how I'm going to spin that to a marketing guy to make him
> think that "by many (most?) measurements, Python is now more widely used
> than Perl for many types of applications"

I think the use of "applications" here implies "new applications", not "applications
still in use somewhere".

did you try searching for Cobol, btw ?

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