On 23/02/2008, Michael Lackhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Perl usage is declining. I read some statistics from O'Reilly and > they showed that Perl book sales are going down. > A few years ago the 'P' in LAMP clearly was 'Perl', now it is 'PHP' > in most cases. Developers tend to go (even if slowly) where the money > is.
Sorry, you're making wild claims there - yes ORA perl book sales are down, but then that really doesn't indicate much - most of the ORA perl books have been around for ages and are on their 3rd or 4th reprint. Hardly a surprise. If you look at other more useful numbers you can see that the number of contributors to CPAN and perl projects in increasing, the number of jobs is steady or increasing, and that actually it's all rather healthy. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
