From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f907c,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gidf907c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10dd18,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gid10dd18,public X-Google-Thread: f4ea4,ad802a80672614cc X-Google-Attributes: gidf4ea4,public From: anewman@epidigm.geg.mot.com (M. Alan Newman) Subject: Re: Language Implementation Survey Date: 1996/04/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145233113 sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account) references: <315AA754.167EB0E7@ix.netcom.com> <315B6120.4E1C@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <315D7800.75F5@panix.com> organization: Motorola newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <315D7800.75F5@panix.com>, trimble@panix.com wrote: > I've never seen a survey quite this skewed towards AI. Common Lisp > tops C++ and C? Prolog beating Perl and Python AND Smalltalk? Right. > I have yet to meet a second person who uses Prolog daily (the first was > an AI professor a while ago). I know many people who use Prolog daily in the commercial world, including myself and my team, and other teams, and other companies around the world. When I attend logic programming and related conferences, I meet hundreds of others, mostly in the academic world. I have little doubt the situation is similar regarding Perl, Python, Smalltalk, etc. If you want to know how much a language is used, you might want to examine, for example, the number and financial health of the compiler vendors for that language. If you are trying to satisfy your ego, try a biased survey. -- M. Alan Newman (P20582@email.mot.com) Motorola, Scottsdale, Arizona Speaking for myself.