On 3 Dec 2008, at 17:55, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html
SQL's not a programming language like the others are. It's a minilanguage, like regular expressions or formats, so can be discounted.
The rest add up to 47.9%, so if we divide by 47.9% we get a lower bound on the number of jobs listing a given language because some job adverts will list more than one language. That implies that at least one in thirty jobs that involve programming require Perl.
So no, not dead. Just keeping quiet in the corners. I also note that JobStats is written in this "dead" language.
