From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2004-02-02T20:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Python 25 times as popular as Ruby !?

Lothar Scholz wrote:

>It's simple. The evolution depends on the size of the active
>community. I don't mean students who pick it up for a course, or
>people writting there first script, but people using it in a
>professional (commerical) environment.
>  
>
This is quite clearly a lie. At one point the number of people using 
python could be counted on the fingers of one hand. But that community 
built up over the years (and it was years, belive me) to achive it's 
current state. By your logic such an unpopular language, as it was then, 
shouldn't have made any inroads into the commercial environment.

That fact that it is 25 times more popular than ruby, by your own metic, 
proves that being unpopular has not held it back. The fact that it is 
used in commercial environments from such a starting point make a 
mockery of your assertion.

>You can't deny that there is a correlation between this and the
>quality of the libraries (maybe not the core) and found/fixed bugs.
>
Maybe I should go over to comp.lang.python and see if you have written 
'Perl is 25 times as popular as Python'. Which of course you should 
write as Perl has vastly more libraries of high quality software than 
python.

Other than trolling just what was the point of you message?