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Strange that there is no Python there. [Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it].

skrebbel 14y ago
It was kind of a relief for me - when frequenting HN, one might get the idea that everybody and their dog uses Python for everything, religiously. It's good that there's people out there who simply accidentally forget that it exists.
- skrebbel 14y ago
  Dear downvoter: What the hell? I can only assume that you clicked that button because I wrote something remotely-not-entirely-worshipful about Python, and in that case, have you really connected your identity so strongly to a single programming language that you feel comments unfriendly towards it should be invisible on a place like HN?
  - natep 14y ago
    Because it doesn't add anything to the conversation for someone to point out that their confirmation bias was shown to be wrong.
    - skrebbel 14y ago
      Hey. Damn. You're right. Thanks.
- alexchamberlain 14y ago
  Really? I thought all of HN used Ruby; I of course use Python, C and C++.
- insin 14y ago
  It's the tenth most used tag on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags http://stackoverflow.com/tags
  - draegtun 14y ago
    From a visual quick scan of the tags here is a list of the top languages: 1 c# 371433 2 java 317047 3 php 295016 4 javascript 279976 5 c++ 156107 6 python 140451 7 objective-C 107083 8 c 74124 9 ruby 57577 10 vb.net 36981 11 perl 22101 12 dephi 17439 13 scala 11745 14 haskell 8696 15 actionscript 6102 16 groovy 4970 17 clojure 4046 .. f# 4046
    - draegtun 14y ago
      Additional to above, 11 months ago I also recorded some SO stats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286348 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286348 Using these figures the % growth in questions asked in the last 11 months would be: java 76% php 76% javascript 85% c++ 60% python 70% c# 716% ruby 67% perl 50% scala 76% clojure 77% lua 77% Assuming I've made no calculation or recording errors then the 700%+ increase on c# is quite amazing!
quink 14y ago
I'll bite, in response to the average time being just over half an hour. > I think the time is higher than that of PHP or JavaScript because almost everything is just soooo easy with Python, so only questions with at least a bit of complexity get asked.
kamaal 14y ago
People rarely face a problem with the language itself. Most of the times its either the problem they are trying to solve, or its interface with the language.
fuzzix 14y ago
"[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it]." Hey, that must be true of Perl too! :)
glyphobet 14y ago
Here's the same query with Perl and Python added: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/83730 http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/83730 Python comes in at 34, halfway between Java and Ruby, and Perl at 45, between Haskell and Scala.
- draegtun 14y ago
  Many thanks for link. For posterity here is the list produced sorted on average: avg std dev php 24 41.2894351860362 javascript 26 43.0588803567294 c 27 45.4245721268946 c++ 28 45.2483939710062 c# 30 47.3345103589879 java 31 48.3674381995104 python 34 50.9682383156793 ruby 40 54.1612457522965 haskell 42 57.6626651794045 perl 45 57.7285412002331 scala 53 60.4111999775783 clojure 59 63.6228517085076 lua 60 64.9920293705815

skrebbel 14y ago

It was kind of a relief for me - when frequenting HN, one might get the idea that everybody and their dog uses Python for everything, religiously. It's good that there's people out there who simply accidentally forget that it exists.

skrebbel 14y ago
Dear downvoter: What the hell? I can only assume that you clicked that button because I wrote something remotely-not-entirely-worshipful about Python, and in that case, have you really connected your identity so strongly to a single programming language that you feel comments unfriendly towards it should be invisible on a place like HN?
- natep 14y ago
  Because it doesn't add anything to the conversation for someone to point out that their confirmation bias was shown to be wrong.
  - skrebbel 14y ago
    Hey. Damn. You're right. Thanks.
alexchamberlain 14y ago
Really? I thought all of HN used Ruby; I of course use Python, C and C++.
insin 14y ago
It's the tenth most used tag on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags http://stackoverflow.com/tags
- draegtun 14y ago
  From a visual quick scan of the tags here is a list of the top languages: 1 c# 371433 2 java 317047 3 php 295016 4 javascript 279976 5 c++ 156107 6 python 140451 7 objective-C 107083 8 c 74124 9 ruby 57577 10 vb.net 36981 11 perl 22101 12 dephi 17439 13 scala 11745 14 haskell 8696 15 actionscript 6102 16 groovy 4970 17 clojure 4046 .. f# 4046
  - draegtun 14y ago
    Additional to above, 11 months ago I also recorded some SO stats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286348 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286348 Using these figures the % growth in questions asked in the last 11 months would be: java 76% php 76% javascript 85% c++ 60% python 70% c# 716% ruby 67% perl 50% scala 76% clojure 77% lua 77% Assuming I've made no calculation or recording errors then the 700%+ increase on c# is quite amazing!

quink 14y ago

I'll bite, in response to the average time being just over half an hour. > I think the time is higher than that of PHP or JavaScript because almost everything is just soooo easy with Python, so only questions with at least a bit of complexity get asked.

kamaal 14y ago

People rarely face a problem with the language itself. Most of the times its either the problem they are trying to solve, or its interface with the language.

fuzzix 14y ago

"[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it]." Hey, that must be true of Perl too! :)

glyphobet 14y ago

Here's the same query with Perl and Python added: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/83730 http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/83730 Python comes in at 34, halfway between Java and Ruby, and Perl at 45, between Haskell and Scala.

draegtun 14y ago
Many thanks for link. For posterity here is the list produced sorted on average: avg std dev php 24 41.2894351860362 javascript 26 43.0588803567294 c 27 45.4245721268946 c++ 28 45.2483939710062 c# 30 47.3345103589879 java 31 48.3674381995104 python 34 50.9682383156793 ruby 40 54.1612457522965 haskell 42 57.6626651794045 perl 45 57.7285412002331 scala 53 60.4111999775783 clojure 59 63.6228517085076 lua 60 64.9920293705815