The thing that's most amusing about this article is the actual percentages on which it's based (linked from the article): http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
So even though Perl slipped 2 spots in the last year, it's STILL about as popular as Swift, which is one of the hot new languages, and MORE popular than Ruby, which was expected to supplant Perl in popularity. And COBOL is still more popular as a language than Lua, Scala, and Haskell, all arguably more modern languages than COBOL. So what does this mean? Somebody had a deadline to write an article, and they managed to gin up controversy in rankings that otherwise mean very little. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, right... > > <http://insights.dice.com/2017/03/06/5-programming-languages-fading-away/?CMPID=SM_FB_UP_JS_AV_OG_&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social%252BMedia&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Advocacy_Ongoing> > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
