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> Perl 5 is obviously on the way out and Ruby/Python are coming in Tossing aside this obviously flawed TIOBE thingy (Delphi, wtf?) I see no evidence of this.
by kingkongrevenge 18y ago
> Perl 5 is obviously on the way out and Ruby/Python are coming in
Tossing aside this obviously flawed TIOBE thingy (Delphi, wtf?) I see no evidence of this. CPAN contributions are accelerating, not flat-lining. Perl's domination over Python and Ruby in the corporate environment continues.
- staunch 18y agoI think you have to be deluding yourself to not recognize this as true. Of course Perl is very far from dead, but the early adopters and influential people are moving away. Don't forget that C++/Java had the corporate environments back when Perl kicked their asses.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoAll you seem to be saying is you FEEL Perl is losing some sort of race. I don't share that feeling and I don't see any hard evidence of it. By all reasonable metrics perl continues to grow.
- icey 18y agoThis only works when you pick and choose which metrics to count.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoYou're welcome to do the picking.
- staunch 18y agoHow about total attendance count for all conferences between Python/Ruby/Perl. If Perl was still kicking ass on that (it has historically had some of the best conferences) I'd be surprised.
- SwellJoe 18y agoThat's probably a good measure. YAPC::NA this year was the biggest ever, I seem to recall hearing (and I definitely remember there were more women there this year than ever before...it was commented on during the closing address as being a great milestone for the Perl community). But, YAPC is still a pretty small conference, by design, and there are multiple YAPCs each year, in places all over the world, with the goal being to be friendly to independent volunteer hackers rather than huge corporations.