"I personally do not understand why the size of the user base would count for much in deciding on a language."
I do not fully understand the rationale either. One reason given has been that when expanding, it is easy to find Python or C++ programmers. Anyhow, using download statistics to estimate user base: http://tinyurl.com/yjubljv The method is to subtract the base line download rate from the spikes when a new release is issued, which gives an estimate of the active user base. * * * * * * * * 2009/11/3 Tracy Harms <[email protected]> > My impression is that the tricky task of estimating how many people > use J, and how much they use it, is not going to be simplified by > additional data from J Software. As for the data you've expressed an > interest in seeing, I also think such data would not do much to aid > the estimation of how many people are using J. > > I personally do not understand why the size of the user base would > count for much in deciding on a language. Perhaps if that sort of > thing were something I found easy to understand, I wouldn't have > learned J in the first place! > > -- > T > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Are there any statistics on the size of the J user base? > >... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
