[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call - 08:00 EDT 16 Sep 2021

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-11, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 9/11/2021 6:55 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <shfk82$1fce$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> Something to think about: LaTeX and associated software is used by a
>>>> huge number of people.
>>>
>>> Depends on what you consider huge number.
>>>
>>> There must be hundreds of thousands of people using Tex/LaTex at
>>> universities particular at math and natural sciences departments.
>> 
>> True.  However, probably more people use LaTeX than, say, Python.
>
> Not likely.
>
> Number of Python developers is usually estimated around 10 million.
>

And to expand on that, there are a lot more people using Python than
some people might think because Python is used as the scripting language
in a number of major applications.

These applications have a scripting language built in to allow automation
of some functionality and to allow people to add new features to the
application.

For example, one such major application is Blender:

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_overview.html

Simon.

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