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All 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

• icey 18y ago
  This only works when you pick and choose which metrics to count.
  • kingkongrevenge 18y ago
    You're welcome to do the picking.
    • staunch 18y ago
      How 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 ago
        That'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.