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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 22.26 -0500 1998.12.02, Doug McNutt wrote:
>>
>>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.

No.  Each respondent can select multiple platforms.  I chose at least a
half dozen, myself.


>What is interesting is that a fairly large percentage of MacOS users
>apparently use Perl. Much higher than the percentage of M$ users.

Something like that cannot be extrapolated to computer users at large, as
this survey does not have random samples of Mac users or Windows users.
All this data can speak for is the respondents, not their respective
communities.  Of those responding, 25 percent or so use MacPerl,
possibly/probably in addition to perl on other platforms.

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