Re: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago?

I would guess, being "back" over the past few months, and my memories from the 2004-6 era, that the amount of quality discussions seems to be diminished, and there seems to be fewer SOPW questions than I remember before. Thankfully many of the extraordinarily talented people that make this site great are still around.

I think fewer SOPW questions is an inevitable result of Perl not being the cool kid on the block anymore.

Regardless of that status, Perl is mature and stable and definitely has it's place amongst the giants like Cobol, Fortran, C, and the more recent additions of Java, Python, etc. So, I expect that Perl will be with us for a very long time to come as it's use tapers off in a long slow decline.

-Scott

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Re^2: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago? by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Jul 05, 2013 at 19:11 UTC
You bring up an interesting point, which is the question of relative traffic vs absolute traffic. We can easily answer the question of absolute traffic. However, let's say traffic is down. Part of that, as you say, may be because of a lapse in popularity of Perl. However, what part of this is due to competition for what Perl related traffic there still is, like with StackOverflow, etc Again, this is anecdotal, but I feel like before, when I googled perl problems, the majority of the results were on PM. These days, I believe a slim majority of the results now come from Stackoverflow.	[reply]
Re^3: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago? by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Jul 06, 2013 at 13:57 UTC
Anecdotally, I've found that StackOverflow answers are no where near the quality I'm looking for, so I tend to seek out perl monks answers from my google searches, or just come straight here and do some super searches. -Scott	[reply]
Re^3: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago? by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 05, 2013 at 21:35 UTC
Curious, I supposed at least part of that be that Stackexchange either didn't exist yet, or had much fewer posts?	[reply]
Re^2: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago? by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 07, 2013 at 12:04 UTC
as it's use tapers off in a long slow decline What information makes you think Perl is in decline? I find its community vibrant as ever and Perl's use expanding as I find more and more places I can put it to good use CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]