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Monday, September 03, 2007

Python is overtaking Perl

Here is Python vs. Perl on Google Trends.

Something can be said from this:

  • Python is overtaking Perl;
  • Bangalore of India has more Perl/Python programmers than any other city in the world;
  • Indian programmers prefer Perl over Python by a ratio of 3 to 1, lagging behind the world trend;
  • The three most Python capable cities in the United States are San Francisco, Seattle and Atlanta.
Some Notes:
  • My understanding of Google Trends is that the rankings among regions/cities/languages are by absolute volumes, but the bar lengths are not comparable, otherwise you would conclude that there are as many Swedish-speaking Python programmers as English-speaking ones.
  • I tend not to trust the Regions ranking. It says that both Norway and Finland (population of less than 10 million each) have more Python programmers than the United States (population of more than 300 million).
Other comparisons:






3 comments:

jocago said...

One big thing that I don't see in your post is that these are searches, not programmers. It could very well be that programmers in Sweden hit Google by a ratio of 3-1 over U.S. programmers. I don't have any data on this, so everything is speculation. I don't see how we can postulate the number of programmers from these reports. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anonymous said...

A more accurate title would be "Python is overtaking Perl in India" since that's where most of the difference comes from.

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