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You don't need hard quantitative data to note the shift away from Perl to Ruby, Python and PHP. It's also not a purely emotional argument to note that Ruby and

You don't need hard quantitative data to note the shift away from Perl to Ruby, Python and PHP. It's also not a purely emotional argument to note that Ruby and Python both cover roughly the same problem domain but with far fewer quirks. Ruby's tremendous surge of popularity was driven by a new generation of young, passionate developers. I don't see anybody advocating Perl that doesn't already have many years of sunk costs in the language.

phaylon 15y ago
> You don't need hard quantitative data If you make an absolute, quantitative statement, you kinda do. If you read what I said below, it's perfectly fine to feel that in your environment there is a shift happening, and I can't judge that. What I'm saying is that you can't extrapolate from that to everybody. And I'm also saying that my and many others opinions differ. All I'm asking for is the minimum respect to not basically call us liars or delusional by implying we just make this stuff up, or are too invested to see the truth. In my (limited) experience, it is more the anti-crowd that is usually quite invested. Not monetary though, but emotionally invested. Some people in here find it very important that the world hates the things they hate at least as much.