(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4355) How many Fortran programmers are there?

[Toon Moene]

John Reid wrote:

> I have been asked if I can estimate how many Fortran programmers there 
> are. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Another statistic as a proxy:

Google for:

Fortran: About 8,500,000 results
C++:     About 44,800,000 results
Java:    About 197,000,000 results (probably corrupted with non-relevant
          results)
Python:  About 35,300,000 results (might have the same problem)

-- 
Toon Moene - e-mail: toon at moene.org - phone: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG  Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
At home: http://moene.org/~toon/; weather: http://moene.org/~hirlam/
Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran#news