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Re^5: Perl Contempt in My Workplace

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Apr 28, 2021 at 13:15 UTC ( [id://11131792]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Perl Contempt in My Workplace
in thread Perl Contempt in My Workplace

Yes, you made a good point, which I didn't address. Sorry 'bout that.

My feeling is that there are many other factors likely to have a bigger impact on a company's financial success than their choice of programming language/s. Had Google (in a different parallel universe) chosen C++, Java and Perl - instead of C++, Java and Python - would they have been more or less successful in the marketplace? Lacking a multiverse and/or a time machine, we can't just rerun the experiment. :)

For the record, I see that flyaps (fuzzily) list the programming languages used by the top 25 company "Unicorns" (top tech companies with a market estimation of over $1 billion) in 2019:

  • Python: 20
  • Java: 19
  • Javascript: 16
  • C/C++: 15
  • Ruby: 12
  • Go: 11
  • Kotlin: 8
  • PHP: 7
  • Objective C: 7
  • Swift: 6
  • C#: 4
  • Typescript: 2
  • Rust: 2
  • R: 2
  • Perl: 2
  • Scala: 2

Generally, I don't have a lot of confidence in these numbers ... more so because they list "C/C++" as a programming language when there is no such language!

See also "Software Development Methodology Science" section at Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part I): Meta Process for a similarly intractable problem, namely attempting to "prove" that one Software Development Process is better than another (and by how much).

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