How many people use or used Lisp?
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From: Nicolas Neuss on 15 Mar 2010 04:30 Kazimir Majorinc <email(a)false.false> writes: > How many people use Lisp (all dialects > combined) today? My guess: 3000, based > on the membership on various Lisp forums. > Anyone with better guess? 30,000,000? (Could easily be an order of magnitude more or less.) Including Emacs users and users of software with Lisp-like configuration languages. > When Lisp was the most popular, in > relative or absolute numbers? How many > people used it at that time? 0? 1000? 100 billion? Whatever answer you want, because Lisp was never the most popular language. Nicolas
From: Asgeir on 15 Mar 2010 05:16 Nicolas Neuss <lastname(a)kit.edu> writes: > Kazimir Majorinc <email(a)false.false> writes: > >> How many people use Lisp (all dialects >> combined) today? My guess: 3000, based >> on the membership on various Lisp forums. >> Anyone with better guess? > > 30,000,000? (Could easily be an order of magnitude more or less.) > Including Emacs users and users of software with Lisp-like configuration > languages. > >> When Lisp was the most popular, in >> relative or absolute numbers? How many >> people used it at that time? > > 0? 1000? 100 billion? Whatever answer you want, because Lisp was never > the most popular language. > > Nicolas I think he was talking about: - people using Lisp to program by choice or maybe professional obligation, but not people using Lisp to configure their favorite text editor; - "what has been the maximum number of people using Lisp?" more than "how many people used Lisp when it was the most popular programming language in all times". -- Asgeir
From: Tim Bradshaw on 15 Mar 2010 05:59 On 2010-03-15 03:46:03 +0000, Kazimir Majorinc said: > How many people use Lisp (all dialects > combined) today? My guess: 3000, based > on the membership on various Lisp forums. > Anyone with better guess? 8
From: Nicolas Neuss on 15 Mar 2010 06:06 Asgeir <asgeir(a)free.fr> writes: > Nicolas Neuss <lastname(a)kit.edu> writes: >> Kazimir Majorinc <email(a)false.false> writes: >> >>> How many people use Lisp (all dialects >>> combined) today? My guess: 3000, based >>> on the membership on various Lisp forums. >>> Anyone with better guess? >> >> 30,000,000? (Could easily be an order of magnitude more or less.) >> Including Emacs users and users of software with Lisp-like configuration >> languages. >> >>> When Lisp was the most popular, in >>> relative or absolute numbers? How many >>> people used it at that time? >> >> 0? 1000? 100 billion? Whatever answer you want, because Lisp was never >> the most popular language. >> >> Nicolas > > I think he was talking about: > - people using Lisp to program by choice or maybe professional > obligation, but not people using Lisp to configure their favorite text > editor; > - "what has been the maximum number of people using Lisp?" more than > "how many people used Lisp when it was the most popular programming > language in all times". Maybe, but the data on all this is so uncertain that only a troll would like to have answers for such questions. Nicolas
From: Alex Mizrahi on 15 Mar 2010 06:11
KM> How many people use Lisp (all dialects KM> combined) today? My guess: 3000, based KM> on the membership on various Lisp forums. KM> Anyone with better guess? FWTW, Peter Seibel have estimated [1] that more than 10,000 copies of his book _Practical Common Lisp_ are going to be sold, because first two prints produces 8000 copies, and publisher made a third print. I guess it depends a lot on what you count as use. You know, some schools or univesities might teach Lisp or Scheme. Do those students "use" Lisp? [1]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/2007/05/26/pcl-third-printing.html |