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- From: anewman@epidigm.geg.mot.com (M. Alan Newman)
- Subject: Re: Language Implementation Survey
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 07:07:18 -0700
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- In article <315D7800.75F5@panix.com>, trimble@panix.com wrote:
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- > 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.
-