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by meritt 4518 days ago
Well, I'd argue that Python specifically has a substantial userbase from the mathematics, statistics and econometric world that rarely bleeds over to other languages, and those people tend to exist more densely in larger organizations.

It's just a heavily biased article is all. We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.

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>We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.

You'd lose that bet. Here are two HN polls.

http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/5-ways-to-tell-which-program...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104

Nice, I stand corrected (and definitely would have lost that bed!) That's a considerably larger population of C# users than I would have expected from the startup-centric HN userbase.
>It's just a heavily biased article is all

Yes, but as I said I don't see any indication that the bias is towards "enterprise" at all. Python's use in statistics and related fields is quite small compared to its competition in those areas, which don't even show up. So it seems very unreasonable to suggest that is what is giving python a hugely inflated figure just to maintain the notion that there is an "enterprise" bias.