[BioPython] interesting stats

[Andrew Dalke]

Looking at slashdot's reference to the article on the composition
of the source code in the Red Hat distribution, at

http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html

There's a table of counts.  Of the VHLLs
  Lisp 722430 (2.40%) (454KLOC in emacs)
  Perl 562900 (1.87%) (147KLOC in perl)
  Python 285050 (0.95%) (101KLOC in python)
  Tcl 213014 (0.71%) (84KLOC in Tcl)

There was a post in c.l.py by raskol titled "python IS popular"
which points to the sourceforge stats at
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=160

The posted breakdown by language, for VHLLs is:

    # sf
    projs platform      %
    ========================
    2026 Perl          10.6%
    1885 PHP            9.9%
      876 Python         4.6%
     358 Visual Basic   1.9%
     308 Tcl            1.6%
     241 JavaScript     1.3%
     116 Lisp           0.6%
      72 Scheme         0.4%

What I find interesting is that in both cases the numbers for
Perl are about twice that of Python.  That suggests that there
are only a bit over twice as many active open-source Perl
developers as there are Python developers.

Now, what about biophp? :)

                    Andrew
                    dalke@acm.org