Jonathan Ellis wrote:
My apologies for not having a peer-reviewed study correlating experience
with perl use. Still, that is definitely the case: experienced Perl
developers, who experiment with other languages, tend not to stay
with Perl. You can see this happening in both the Python and the
Ruby communities... but you almost never see someone moving the
other way.
survey says... X
Easy example, look at the company I work at. Plenty of developers, from
a large variety of programming backgrounds, and we use Perl for our
development platform.
Is it because it's all we know? Quite the opposite actually. It's not
like we learned it in college. It's not like we've never used anything
else. We chose to.
As for staying with Perl, you are quite mistaken. Yes people often learn
it, and some do decide they like other things. But many go the other
direction. Just because you sit in one camp and see people headed your
way, doesn't make it a one way street. There are a lot of us, and we're
growing.
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Jayce^
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