http://py-geek-blog.pythonblogs.com/2_py_geek_blog pygeek 2010-05-02T18:59:15Z http://py-geek-blog.pythonblogs.com/2_py_geek_blog/archive/5_python_language_popularity.html <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://py-geek-blog.pythonblogs.com/plugins/plogeshi/styles/plogeshi.css" /><p> In according to TIOBE Programming Community Index Python language* popularity has reached 4.613% in May 2008, that is&nbsp; +0.83% growth from a year ago (May 2007). </p> <p> Graph below demonstrates trends in popularity among top languages over the past 6 years: </p> <p> <img src="http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/images/tpci_trends.png" width="640" height="480" align="middle" /> </p> <p> &nbsp;Over this period of time Python popularity is in an uptrend, while Java, C++, C and Perl are in a downtrend. Other languages which gained popularity index over this period of time are Ruby, C# and Vidual Basic. An interesting conclusion which can be drawn from this graph is that dynamicly typed languages are winning over the staticly typed. <br /> </p> <p> * - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html </p> General 2008-05-30T21:31:23Z pygeek http://py-geek-blog.pythonblogs.com/2_py_geek_blog/archive/2_welcome_to_pygeek_blog.html <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://py-geek-blog.pythonblogs.com/plugins/plogeshi/styles/plogeshi.css" />Stay tuned! General 2008-05-29T00:42:15Z pygeek