RE: Perl most prolific web-app dev environment

[Jesse Erlbaum]

Hi Nat!


> Jesse Erlbaum writes:
> > * I have heard a rumor that at ORA, the Perl books outsell all
> > other programming books.  Do we have any facts and numbers to which
> > we can refer?
> 
> This is not true.  Our bestselling Java and XML books massively
> outsell our bestselling Perl books.  That said, Programming Perl,
> Learning Perl, and (to a lesser extent) The Perl Cookbook, are all
> high volume and long-lifetime books.


Thanks for the info!  I would have to say, this would probably not be my
first choice of statistic to use for Perl advocacy.

Does ORA have any data supporting the assertion that Perl programmers are
better looking?  Perhaps beard-length could be used as a more favorable
metric.  :-)  :-)


-Jesse-