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Looks like peak Perl was about 2012-2014. :(

• eikenberry 7y ago
  Really more around 1994, just before Perl 5 came out. Perl was a great sh/sed/awk replacement for a while..
  • isostatic 7y ago
    What's better 25 years later for that sort of work?
    • japanoise 7y ago
      Yeah I learned Perl in 2013 or so and I almost exclusively use it as a better shell+sed for text munging, which is where it excels. In my experience Python is super bad at this compared to Perl or even shell
  • ryl00 7y ago
    Still is, for many of us (I only picked it up in 2000).
• chihuazhang 7y ago
  Sdfsfds
• peteretep 7y ago
  Which is ironic, because even the most ardent Perlies among us were wringing our hands about its inevitable decline well before then.
  • barrkel 7y ago
    The rate of increase must have been declining (i.e. rate of rate of increase negative) in order for it to have peaked. This was probably detectable.
    • benj111 7y ago
      "and rate of rate of increase negative" Are you a politician? Because that's a very round about way of putting it. :P If the rate of increase is negative, there is an actual absolute decline. Is that want you were meaning to say?
      • antisemiotic 7y ago
        "rate of rate of increase" = "second derivative", I presume. Negative second derivative doesn't necessarily mean a decline, it can be just growth slowing down.
        • deleted 7y ago
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      • barrkel 7y ago
        I said rate of rate of increase. The second derivative is negative at a local maximum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_test#Second_derivative_test_(single_variable) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_test#Second_derivat...
        • benj111 7y ago
          My mistake, I misread.
        • caf 7y ago
          ...and the sign of the second derivative flips at an inflection point.
    • lifthrasiir 7y ago
      That makes me think: is there any instance that the rate of increase of packages or similar metrics ever went below zero (presumably due to removed packages)? I'm not sure if it is generally impossible in typical package manager models though.
    • quotemstr 7y ago
  • cygx 7y ago
    Choose a different metric, and the story will change significantly: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20tutorial https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20t... https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl There are also anecdotes such as this: https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=1225020 https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=1225020 Perl6 was supposed to help with this. It has yet to do so.
    • 0x445442 7y ago
      Nice job. I think these graphs depict Perl's "sphere of influence" in IT with respect to time much better than the original article's depiction.
  • thanatropism 7y ago
    That's not irony, that's the Rolle's Theorem.