TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!
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Berco Beute
What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of
sexiness?
What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's
popularity in 2004 (see http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html).
Equally interesting is the question why it dropped shortly after.
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Diez B. Roggisch
> Cool! We knew it would happen one day :)
> What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of
> sexiness?
I'd say Java was never sexy, but dressed up in expensive lingerie by
marketing maniacs...
Diez
Kay Schluehr
> Cool! We knew it would happen one day :)
> What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of
> sexiness?
Python eats Perls lunch as a scripting language.
George Sakkis
Even better, it is not threatened by Ruby as many from the buzzword-
ridden RoR crowd would like to believe.
ajaksu
> Cool! We knew it would happen one day :)
> What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of
> sexiness?
>
> What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's
> Equally interesting is the question why it dropped shortly after.
>
> 2B
From http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index(and
http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/images/tpci_trends.png )
# Q: What happened to Java in April 2004? Did you change your
methodology?
A: No, we did not change our methodology at that time. Google changed
its methodology. They performed a general sweep action to get rid of
all kinds of web sites that had been pushed up. As a consequence,
there was a huge drop for languages such as Java and C++. In order to
minimize such fluctuations in the future, we added two more search
engines (MSN and Yahoo) a few months after this incident.
Bruno Desthuilliers
+2 QOTW
> Diez
Richard Jones
> What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's
> popularity in 2004 (see http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html).
> Equally interesting is the question why it dropped shortly after.
They explain the discontinuity on the index page in the FAQ.
Richard
Paddy
> Seehttp://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index.
>
> Marc
ohloh "Monthly Commits by Language"
also shows Python open-source work being healthy:
http://tinyurl.com/2wcadu
If you remove C/C++ the other languages can be more easily compared.
(C/C++ I see as the bedrock language of open-source):
http://tinyurl.com/2u76d9
- Paddy.