Re: [Axiom-developer] domains with parameters versus Python classes

[Ondrej Certik]

> > I agree witht the arguments that you presented. Especially with
> > "There are very
> > few programming languages that have invented anything new in the last
> > decade or so". But now comes the point, which seems natural to me, but
> > where we disagree - why don't we then just use a language which is the
> > most popular? (It doesn't have to be Python, it can be Ruby, or any
> > other, but I think Python is the most popular).
>
> I'm sure the question is well-posed.
>
> How dos popularity relates to effectiveness at solving programs?

First, this question is under the assumption, that "There are very
few programming languages that have invented anything new in the last
decade or so" and second - the popular language has a well tested
compilers/interpreters, that is a huge plus. So it is effective, as
you can ask many people.

> By the way, how do you measure popularity?  By numbers published a
> couple of years ago, there would be about 9 millions programmers
> on the planet, out of which 3 millions are claimed to be C++
> programmers.

Right, C/C++ is probably the most popular. But it's quite low level,
we are interested in something higher level, thus we need to look
among Python, Ruby, C#, Aldor etc. You can measure the popularity by
anything of these: number of endusers, number of developers, number of
compilers/interpreters, number of jobs offerings (demaning a knowledge
of the particular language),......

Ondrej