Language election

Articles

Why Python? by Eric Raymond on Apr 30, 2000 in Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

It was written more than 12 years ago when Python was far less powerful than today but, nonetheless, his opinion and first experiences with the language may be quite similar to what happens to some people nowadays.

Language comparison

Ohloh

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Note

Information retrieved on August 12th, 2012

Programming Language Statistics

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sources: C, C++, Java, Matlab & Python

Language comparison (monthly commits as percent of total)

The lines show the count of monthly commits made by source code developers. Commits including multiple languages are counted once for each language. More

Combined

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sources: C, C++, Matlab, Java & Python | C, C++, Matlab & Python | C, C++ & Python

One on one

C vs Python

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C++ vs Python

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Matlab vs Python

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Java vs Python

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sources: C & Python | C++ & Python | Matlab & Python | Java & Python