Python is becoming the worlds most popular coding language
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[the economist](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language) > I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. Snakes are NOT slimy. Really!
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Hi, I think this is because [Python is the language that many educational institutions choose to teach](https://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython). Back in the 1990's there was a controversy over which languages were being taught in the schools. Some people claimed that teaching students to code for a specific platform was basically free advertisement and corporate bias. Many of these schools responded by changing the programming curriculum to use platform independent languages. It would be interesting to cross reference the popularity to the number of schools teaching the programming language. I am very skeptical about these 'language popularity' graphs that use search engines for measurements. Here is the most popular programming languages according to GitHub: [languages in GitHub](https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull\_requests/2018/2) Best Wishes, -David Delaune
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[the economist](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language) > I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. Snakes are NOT slimy. Really!
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star.
Does this say something about: 1. anything ? 2. the type of person who programs in Python ? 3. Kim Kardashian ? 4. Python ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star.
Does this say something about: 1. anything ? 2. the type of person who programs in Python ? 3. Kim Kardashian ? 4. Python ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
5. Americans ? 6. Google?
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Hi, I think this is because [Python is the language that many educational institutions choose to teach](https://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython). Back in the 1990's there was a controversy over which languages were being taught in the schools. Some people claimed that teaching students to code for a specific platform was basically free advertisement and corporate bias. Many of these schools responded by changing the programming curriculum to use platform independent languages. It would be interesting to cross reference the popularity to the number of schools teaching the programming language. I am very skeptical about these 'language popularity' graphs that use search engines for measurements. Here is the most popular programming languages according to GitHub: [languages in GitHub](https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull\_requests/2018/2) Best Wishes, -David Delaune
Randor wrote:
Back in the 1990's there was a controversy over which languages were being taught in the schools. Some people claimed that teaching students to code for a specific platform was basically free advertisement and corporate bias. Many of these schools responded by changing the programming curriculum to use platform independent languages.
Yes, one of our complaints at the time. Schools and universities would go to Open Source hobby-languages that would not be asked in any vacancy listed. Stuff like Java (because it is only corporate bias if it involves a MS product), where they simply could download some tutorials and start "educating". It took years of whining from corporations and the introduction of .NET before schools started to pick it up. And while they still don't like Microsoft, most schools love their apples. That's also one of the reasons why Java came so far as it did; it was pushed by educators.
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Hi, I think this is because [Python is the language that many educational institutions choose to teach](https://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython). Back in the 1990's there was a controversy over which languages were being taught in the schools. Some people claimed that teaching students to code for a specific platform was basically free advertisement and corporate bias. Many of these schools responded by changing the programming curriculum to use platform independent languages. It would be interesting to cross reference the popularity to the number of schools teaching the programming language. I am very skeptical about these 'language popularity' graphs that use search engines for measurements. Here is the most popular programming languages according to GitHub: [languages in GitHub](https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull\_requests/2018/2) Best Wishes, -David Delaune
Python is a pretty easy and forgiving language; so it's use as an academic tool is understandable and even, to an extent, desirable. Hell, if people in general could figure out if they're going to use 2.7 or 3 I might actually work in it regularly as well. There is also a link to the Linux community's strange obsession with Py, the prevalence of Linux in the security community, and the growth of cybersecurity as an industry. My only real issue with it is that, in recent years, it's been following a trajectory similar to PHP and PowerShell; people are using it to write applications rather than relying on the efficiencies of compiled languages. As a tool, though, it's got a purpose that it can serve well, when used properly.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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[the economist](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language) > I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. Snakes are NOT slimy. Really!
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Well it should not have been named Python especially if mass consumption was to be involved !!!
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Well it should not have been named Python especially if mass consumption was to be involved !!!
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
Slow-as-molasses-thon !
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[the economist](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language) > I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. Snakes are NOT slimy. Really!
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
After I started the OSSU Computer Science I used python in a few course. it's popular because schools and universities uses it for teaching algorithm. so students search it in google. But I think python is little dangerous for big projects. But it's awesome for math and statistic. You can easily write scripts and check them while coding in spyder.
