REPOST: Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[phil hunt]

On 27 Dec 2001 04:21:57 -0800, Dudley Carr <dcarr1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>First and foremost, the rate at which a language is growing,
>especially in terms of industry acceptance, is always difficult to
>tell since rarely is a survey done to find out how many people are
>using a particular language across all industries.
>
>Personally, I use the following metric to see how a language is
>progressing:
>
>1. Look at the number of Oreilly books (possibly books by other
>publishers) that have been or are going to be released in relation to
>the language.
>
>2. Number of articles on programming websites using / explaining the
>language.
>
>2. Look the support for new technologies in the language and its
>libraries.
>
>3. Activity in the newsgroup is also very indicative esp. with the
>number of newbie questions flowing-in (mention in an earlier post).

5. look at the number of projects using that language on Sourceforge.


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