programming languages (etc) "web popularity" fun

[Dang Griffith]

I'm sure Cameron is quite aware of that, and yet your comment
does nothing to invalidate his statement. Surely you can accept
that "Python hasn't been on the street as long as *some* of
the others" (emphasis added), can't you?

-Peter

I definitely accept that--I had glossed over the 'in a nutshell'
portion of Alex' post, and thought the comment was about the
language's popularity, not the nutshell books.
Apologies for my confusion infusion, hopefully, now defused.
--dang

 

[Peter Hansen]

I definitely accept that--I had glossed over the 'in a nutshell'
portion of Alex' post, and thought the comment was about the
language's popularity, not the nutshell books.

We both made the same mistake, actually, as I had missed the nutshell
parts as well until Peter Otten's reply.

Apologies for my confusion infusion, hopefully, now defused.

Yes, let's get back to useful topics.

-Peter

 

[John J. Lee]

Sure -- goes near the end of the current list of 31 languages, with
about helf the hits of Ruby or smalltalk, but over twice as many as
caml of all sorts:

matlab 104000
smalltalk 91300
ruby 90000
powerbuilder 49500
caml OR ocaml OR "o'caml 19500

How about Mathematica (or Maple)?

too-lazy-to-find-my-google-key-ly y'rs,


John

 

[Alex Martelli]

John J. Lee wrote:

How about Mathematica (or Maple)?

too-lazy-to-find-my-google-key-ly y'rs,

Given this widespread interest in "peculiar" languages, here's
the queue of the current 34-languages list...:

26: matlab 109000
27: smalltalk 98100
28: ruby 95900
29: maple 70600
30: mathematica 70500
31: powerbuilder 49500
32: erlang 29800
33: object pascal 23600
34: caml OR ocaml OR "o'caml 20700


Alex

 

[Skip Montanaro]

Alex> Given this widespread interest in "peculiar" languages, here's the
Alex> queue of the current 34-languages list...:

...

Alex,

Please add Macsyma to your list. There must be one or two Lisp Machines
still out there... ;-)

Skip

 

[Alex Martelli]

Please add Macsyma to your list. There must be one or two Lisp Machines
still out there... ;-)

At your service -- here's the tail of the evergrowing list...:

26: matlab 109000
27: smalltalk 98100
28: ruby 95900
29: mathematica 70800
30: maple 70600
31: powerbuilder 49500
32: erlang 29800
33: object pascal 23600
34: caml OR ocaml OR "o'caml 20700
35: macsyma 3110
36: interlisp 1630


Alex

 

[Michele Simionato]

Please add Macsyma to your list. There must be one or two Lisp Machines
still out there... ;-)

Skip

Maxima now is a Sourceforce projects and runs on every PC:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Michele

 

[John J. Lee]

Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> wrote in message

Maxima now is a Sourceforce projects and runs on every PC:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the link!


John

 

[Cameron Laird]

Cameron> Also <URL: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8472/ur0308i/>.

The difference being? Since they are approximately the same length, "Google
Pocket Guide" is probably not a "Cliff Notes" version of "Google Hacks".

Skip

*Google Pocket Guide* is for civilians, *Google Hacks* for programmers.
comp.lang.python readers might well want both; for our purposes, there's
little redundancy between the two.

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| *Google Pocket Guide* is for civilians,
| *Google Hacks* for programmers.
| ....

Perhaps in the future we can look forward
to Google dot Net for the Masses ....

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113209,tk,dn103103X,00.asp

 

[Nick Vargish]

Perhaps in the future we can look forward to Google dot Net for the
Masses ....

Declined by the folks a Google, thank Goddess.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/02/1067708070338.html

Nick

 

[Cousin Stanley]

|| Perhaps in the future we can look forward
|| to Google dot Net for the Masses ....

| Declined by the folks a Google, thank Goddess.

| http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/02/1067708070338.html

Nick ....

I could probably translate ....

Declined the bid ....

As ....

Add another X% and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
and we MIGHT reconsider ....

 

[Nick Vargish]

Nick ....
I could probably translate ....
Declined the bid ....
As ....
Add another X% and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
and we MIGHT reconsider ....

Except that Google declined forcefully enough that MSFT is apparently
shopping elsewhere for their search engine. That could be a bargaining
tactic, but it really doesn't look like it.

To drag this thread kicking and screaming back onto topic, does anyone
know what Google uses Python for, and to what extent?

Nick

 

[Terry Reedy]

To drag this thread kicking and screaming back onto topic, does anyone
know what Google uses Python for, and to what extent?

I *assume* that they use it for relatively quickly prototyping
new/experimental features. The ability to test things quickly and
keep ahead of the competition is part of their competitive advantage.
Things put into production use are legitimately (in an economic sense,
for quick response and CPU farm savings) rewriten in C?? and I presume
they do.

TJR