I’d go with Java, in order:
* Popularity – there is just more stuff being written in Java. This would
indicate the employment options are greater.
* https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
* Java currently rates 4th vs Perl at 27th
* Over the long arc, Java probably has a faster learning curve. As much as
I love Perl, it has some rather arcane syntax at times.
I’m sure you will get many opinions to the contrary on a Perl mailing list 😊
FWIW, I’d wildly guess the following for my coding time:
* 90% using Perl
* 9% using PHP/JavaScript for web-pages
* 0.9% in, say, C++ or C
* 0.09% in Java or C#
The rest of the time I slack off.
Cheers,
Claude.
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What is preferable to learn?
Java or Perl
What is the learning curve of this language of programming?
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