On Monday, 2009-03-23 at 10:54:59 -0700, Byrne Reese wrote: > It amazes me that this entire thread neglects to mention PHP.
OK, I'll add PHP... Figures from the German freelancer market, Gulp (www.gulp.de): CVs (called profiles, a total of 60823 are available) with: Perl 5470 Ruby 234 Java 11261 PHP 6047 About two Java programmers per Perl programmer. About 23 Perl programmers per Ruby programmer. (Germans are known to be conservative...) Roughly the same number of PHP people as Perl people. Projects (total 1317) mentioning Perl 54 Ruby 4 Java 153 PHP 34 The programmer-to-project ratios are: Perl 101 Ruby 58 Java 73 PHP 178 So, yes, Perl is a bad choice. It is the language with the most competition. Go for Ruby! There may be only four projetcs, but you have less competition to fear! :-) And you should avoid PHP, too. Turns out, the numbers for PHP aren't that different from those for Perl. I have to admit that I'm surprised. By the dearth of PHP projects as well as the number of PHP people. Lupe Christoph -- | There is no substitute for bad design except worse design. | | /me |
