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RE: [Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey

From: "Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop AT intel.com>
To: John Wiegley <johnw AT newartisans.com>
Cc: "coq-club AT inria.fr" <coq-club AT inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:34:30 +0000
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Dear John,

> At work I keep hearing the figure "1,000" as an approximation of the number
> of capable Coq programmers in the world. What would a closer number be
> now in 2016?

I have heard 100 ;-) so I found this rank 70 quite astonishing. Form what I
hear more and more universities offer lectures in Coq and a good fraction of
computer science students are taking these lectures. Maybe a large part of
the Coq question on stack exchange comes from students doing exercises - I
don't know. It might take a few more years until the students taking Coq
lectures now hit the industry, but it will happen.

Best regards,

Michael
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[Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey, Soegtrop, Michael, 01/20/2016
- Re: [Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey, John Wiegley, 01/20/2016
  - RE: [Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey, Soegtrop, Michael, 01/22/2016
    - RE: [Coq-Club] Coq around rank 70 of most popular computer languages according to redmonk survey, Talia Ringer, 01/22/2016