On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:19:19AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> If Perl isn't selling as many books as Java it could mean any number of
> things such as Java programmers are stupid and need books, Java is harder
> to learn, etc.
Hard to learn, hard to use, whatever, is incredibly difficult to prove.
Java programmers needing more books than Perl Programmers? Sounds like
that's a result of 1200+ pages of docs that come with the Perl
distribution and a culture that documents its modules and extensions. [1]
So maybe Perl programmers *do* need fewer books.
I'll also mention that Java is the language of instruction at many
universities, and college students account for a decent number of
book purchases. And those same college students aren't using the
Java online documentation, and they're buying multiple Java books per
year, possibly the same ones on the shelf at B&N.
Z.
[1] Yes, javadoc exists, but how many packages use javadoc for more than
just API references? Really, I'd like to know. Anyone know any
Java programmers?
