My take-away points (and personal comments):
- CL is mostly used by hobbyists. (Not a very big surprise.)
- There do seem to be several users in research computing. (As a computational biologist, I find this interesting and encouraging.)
- The user demographics skew towards younger adults (<45 yrs). (That's interesting because they weren't around yet during Lisp's heyday, so the language seems to retain enough appeal to still attract new users.)
- User's top 5 countries of origin: USA (30%), Germany (10%), UK (5.4%), Japan (5%), Canada (4.3%). (Not quite as anglophone-leaning as I'd expected; there's actually a very wide spread of countries represented.)
However, I don't know how this survey was advertised, so the results may just be sampling bias.
- CL is mostly used by hobbyists. (Not a very big surprise.)
- There do seem to be several users in research computing. (As a computational biologist, I find this interesting and encouraging.)
- The user demographics skew towards younger adults (<45 yrs). (That's interesting because they weren't around yet during Lisp's heyday, so the language seems to retain enough appeal to still attract new users.)
- User's top 5 countries of origin: USA (30%), Germany (10%), UK (5.4%), Japan (5%), Canada (4.3%). (Not quite as anglophone-leaning as I'd expected; there's actually a very wide spread of countries represented.)
However, I don't know how this survey was advertised, so the results may just be sampling bias.