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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:

>  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.
