Survey on software use in astronomy

[Jack Ireland]

A colleague passed this on to me. Quite interesting.  Python is the most popular programming language amongst the respondents.

https://www.authorea.com/users/10533/articles/18046

[Derek Lamb]

Thanks for forwarding this, Jack.  It is very interesting!  Though they (and you) are careful to note that "This survey should not be viewed as a systematically representative sample of the astronomy community", primarily because 63% of the respondents were either grad students or post-docs.  I'm glad to see them acknowledge that they aren't trained in (and haven't attempted) correcting for the significant selection bias.

Not surprising to me at all that Python is the preferred language for the younger crowd, and thus eventually (even if just due to the passage of time) for the whole field.

Derek

On Jul 16, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Jack Ireland <jacki...@gmail.com> wrote:

A colleague passed this on to me. Quite interesting.  Python is the most popular programming language amongst the respondents.

https://www.authorea.com/users/10533/articles/18046

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SunPy" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sunpy+un...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to su...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sunpy.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.