Re: [MacPerl] The Perl Usage Survey Continues...

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>
>25% of the respondents use MacPerl. That's much more impressive than 5th place.
>

I found it difficult to understand how 0.75 can be split four ways with each
way getting more than 0.25. The real numbers are shown below.

But then I guess 100 percent of the respondents use Perl.

25% sounds too much like BC telling us he's going to hire 100000 teachers
for $1.1 billion.  The effect depends on the unwillingness of the listeners
to engage brain.

What is interesting is that a fairly large percentage of MacOS users
apparently use Perl. Much higher than the percentage of M$ users. But then
the sample is selecting itself - a well known way to lie with figures.
Statistics will say anything if tortured enough.

>    Linux                3238 23.79%
>    Solaris              2421 17.79%
>    Win 95, 98, NT       2276 16.72%
>    SunOS                1283  9.43%
>    MacOS                1276  9.37%
>    HP-UX                 780  5.73%
>    Free-, Net-, OpenBSD  693  5.09%
>    IRIX                  630  4.63%
>    AIX                   557  4.09%
>    DEC Unix, OSF/1       458  3.36%
total                    13612 


-->From the USA, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it.


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