I am not venting nor am I an outside observer. For my own scripting uses I use perl - it's what I like using and what I feel competent in. I also used to teach courses in perl. The question wasn't an emotional one in which I was calling for people to declare their loyalty to perl; it was a factual one.
As to the claim that i don't have anything on CPAN - you are right Gabor. I don't. But, that doesn't make me anything other than a user rather than a developer. Dov Levenglick דוב לוונגליק http://dov-levenglick.com/ On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Gabor Szabo <ga...@szabgab.com> wrote: > According to my little research using Google Trends (which is of > course only one indicator among many) > http://szabgab.com/perl-python-ruby-php-and-html5-on-google-trends.html > if we take the "market share" of Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP as 100% > then Perl declined from 21.5% in January 2004 to > 5.1 % in April 2013. > > But dying? > I just posted http://szabgab.com/perl-maven-over-5000-visits-a-day.html > how fast the Perl Maven site is growing. > > Anyway, it was interesting to check the CPAN contributions > of the previous 3 people commenting on this thread: > > https://metacpan.org/author/HORNBURG 19 results, last one a day ago. > > https://metacpan.org/author/ISAAC 5 results, last one 3 years ago. > > https://metacpan.org/author/LEVENGLI 0 results. > > So I think the question is: > > Are you just an outside observer who uses whatever is popular, > or do you want to be a player in the field? > > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > Perl@perl.org.il > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >
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