[fpc-pascal] FPC User Population

[Florian Klaempfl]

Mark Emerson wrote:

> Can anyone give an estimate of how many FPC users there are now, 
> worldwide?  I'm not certain how to define this, but would like to get a 
> feeling.  One metric might be the number of downloads of various 
> versions.  Another might be the size of this email list.  My gratitude 
> to the development team is huge.

You can check the download statistics of one of the two machines running 
ftp.freepascal.org: http://www.de.freepascal.org/webalizer. Since this 
is only one mirror, we expect 30-40 GB/day with all mirrors. So you can 
estimate 1000-2000 downloads a day.