Re: Fun fact: Before 1850, Lua was more popular than Python!

[Gregg Reynolds <dev@...>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, list!

Google proves it:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=lua,python&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Fascinating.  I wonder what on earth could have happened in the 1930s to spike the python graph.  A short-lived effort to remove the GIL?