How many people use or used Lisp?
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From: Alessio Stalla on 16 Mar 2010 07:25 On Mar 15, 11:26 am, Pascal Costanza <p...(a)p-cos.net> wrote: > On 15/03/2010 04:46, Kazimir Majorinc wrote: > > > How many people use Lisp (all dialects > > combined) today? My guess: 3000, based > > on the membership on various Lisp forums. > > Anyone with better guess? > > The people who use such forums probably represent only a minor fraction > of the number of actual Lisp users. I completely agree. As an example, if you count the number of people who actively post on comp.lang.java.programmer you'll find it's more or less the same number as comp.lang.lisp, if not inferior. Yet, Java is used much, much more than Lisp. Alessio
From: Tim Bradshaw on 16 Mar 2010 08:06 On 2010-03-16 11:24:17 +0000, joswig(a)corporate-world.lisp.de said: > I would say that there is a significant user > base of CL hidden. This is definitely true. I worked on a system implemented in Lisp which was used in a fairly significant production context, and for which I have never seen any other user or implementor on any Lisp forum I've frequented. The internet is a small, parochial place it turns out.
From: Tamas K Papp on 16 Mar 2010 09:25 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:20:33 +0100, Kazimir Majorinc wrote: > Also, it is reasonable to assume that CL is *roughly* as popular as > Clojure, that Scheme is half as popular, and that other dialects are > much less popular, but that there is significant overlap between these > groups. It is still unclear what you need these numbers for. Your application will determine how much uncertainty you can tolerate, and based on that, you can decide what is a reasonable guess and which assumption needs further research/assessment. For example, you are simply making up the numbers above. If your goal is asking idle questions for no specific reason, then I guess it is perfectly reasonable to make up numbers. Tamas
From: Peter Hill on 16 Mar 2010 13:51 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:46:03 +0100, Kazimir Majorinc <email(a)false.false> wrote: >How many people use Lisp (all dialects >combined) today? My guess: 3000, based >on the membership on various Lisp forums. >Anyone with better guess? > >When Lisp was the most popular, in >relative or absolute numbers? How many >people used it at that time? Whatever. The number of AutoLisp users outweighs all others together. Ok it may just be editing in a few examples from the manual or a tutorial but they still used it. Most certainly the only version that has a vocational qualification available that's taught in technician college courses and not computer science university ivory towers. http://www.acceleratorhq.com/lcb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=20 -- Peter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!
From: Slobodan Blazeski on 16 Mar 2010 15:21
On Mar 15, 6:03 pm, Otto Diesenbacher <diesenbac...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Duke Normandin <dukeofp...(a)ml1.net> writes: > > Haven't got a clue on Lisper population. ;) > > > I'd be more interested in the popularity of Lisp et al (and other languages) > > based on nationality or geographic region. I didn't see any such stats at > > tiobe.com, but it doesn't mean that they don't exist. I must have used the > > wrong search terms at Google. ;) > > http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid... According to the map I don't exist. |