On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 8:04:42 AM UTC+1, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > According to TIOBE, Python's popularity continues to grow: > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > > I wonder how much of that growth is Python 3 and how much is Python 2. > > I'm amazed there's still so much C being done. I meet good programmers > all the time these days, who have never touched C code. > > The crash of Objective-C is amusing ;-). > > It's surprising that R places at all, given the amount of math that its > users need to know. > > I wonder what it means that Perl is booming. Hmm.
Nice points: Programming language popularity is generally voodoo. I am only surprised at your surprise at R. Data (science) is after all the hot subject A programmer moving into that field typically starts with python A statistician typically starts R [My voodoo of course :-) ] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
