Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>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.
Impossible, but you took that out of the context.
*>So maybe Perl programmers *do* need fewer books.
And maybe there are just fewer Perl programmers or fewer people willing to
drop $50US on a Perl book.
*>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.
If this were true, Scheme books would be topping the charts for the last
10 or so years. Besides, students tend to buy used if they can and sell
them back at the end of the semester.
Have you noticed the Rebol book just published? I thought that was pretty
interesting.
e.
