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Why does Perl 5 need a Rails? Despite the existence of Rails, Perl 5 is still more widely used than Ruby. (Perl 5 and Ruby 1 came out around the same time.)
by chromatic 16y ago
Why does Perl 5 need a Rails? Despite the existence of Rails, Perl 5 is still more widely used than Ruby. (Perl 5 and Ruby 1 came out around the same time.)
- sedachv 16y ago"Why does Perl 5 need a Rails?" So O'Reilly can sell books about it.* "Despite the existence of Rails, Perl 5 is still more widely used than Ruby." Who is writing new projects in Perl 5? Ruby will also have a lot of legacy code in five years. * If you thought that was a joke, you're still missing the point.
- chromatic 16y agoIf you thought that was a joke, you're still missing the point. I suffer no illusion that their sales numbers have any correlation to the popularity or efficacy of a technology. Their Ruby book sales crashed in 2007, for example. Who is writing new projects in Perl 5? I know of many, many new projects written in Perl 5. So far this year I've worked on three and have another later in the year.
- sedachv 16y ago"I suffer no illusion that their sales numbers have any correlation to the popularity or efficacy of a technology." I guess all that PR and advertising from dozens of publishing, training, analyst and consulting firms is a giant waste of money?