On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:30:45 -0500 (EST), Stephan Deibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, a September article in InfoWorld said "But the big winner > this time around is the object-oriented scripting language Python, which > saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last year's results." > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/24/39FErrdev_1.html?s=feature
Can we extrapolate from the numbers here to get an estimate of how many Python developers there are? I was asked for that number at workshop a few months ago and I didn't have any idea how to answer. Is there a good answer? Two possibilities come to mind. 1) 14% of developers in the survey work at companies that use Python. How many developers are there? Assume that 14% of them use Python. But what's a good estimate for "number of developers." Pretty rough -- number of survey respondents at company != number of Python programmers at company, and %age companies != %age of programmers. 2) 64% of companies use Java, 4.5 times more than Python. Find out how many Java programmers there are, divide by 4.5. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
