From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Thu Nov 18 20:57:53 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 13532C3BA34; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:57:53 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from moene.org (moene.org [82.95.66.103]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D520C3BA1D for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:57:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] by moene.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJAbc-0004wZ-S8; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:57:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE5851C.50501@moene.org> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:57:16 +0100 From: Toon Moene Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John.Reid@stfc.ac.uk, fortran standards email list for J3 Cc: WG5 Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4355) How many Fortran programmers are there? References: <20101117215413.0F1DBC3BA0A@www2.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20101117215413.0F1DBC3BA0A@www2.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk John Reid wrote: > I have been asked if I can estimate how many Fortran programmers there > are. Does anyone have any thoughts? Another statistic as a proxy: Google for: Fortran: About 8,500,000 results C++: About 44,800,000 results Java: About 197,000,000 results (probably corrupted with non-relevant results) Python: About 35,300,000 results (might have the same problem) -- Toon Moene - e-mail: toon@moene.org - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands At home: http://moene.org/~toon/; weather: http://moene.org/~hirlam/ Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran#news