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"...Sure plenty of people are moving away from Perl..."

With all due respect, tobyink; How do you know? What makes you think so? I'd dearly love to see your stats.

For example; If someone should call me a derogatory name, must I feel compelled to respond? I'd argue not. If a person is relatively comfortable with themselves. Why would they care? I wouldn't.

It is in this same vein, that I would suggest. If a person recognizes the advantages, and chooses Perl. Why would/should they feel compelled to argue against rubbish -- like perls before swine, as it were. I'd also contend, that the type of people that choose Perl, in the first place, are of a type that clearly see the BS, and choose not to bother with it. Seeing it for what it is.

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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Re^3: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?
by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 22, 2013 at 11:18 UTC

    "With all due respect, tobyink; How do you know? What makes you think so?"

    Because this is true for any mainstream programming language - there are always people abandoning the language for pastures new, and new people discovering the language; there are organizations rewriting a legacy application in a different language (in fact, choosing a different language to rewrite a legacy system is a good idea - it helps ensure crufty parts of the old system don't get kept around for convenience); people switching jobs and having to adjust to a new development environment.

    use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name
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      I'm not so sure.

      It's all so; he said, she said, they say. They, say alot of things. But, to date, I have yet to ever meet they.

      While I'm sure that to some extent, what you say is true. I'd really love to see some numbers.

      All the best, tobyink.

      --Chris

      #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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        OK. I was able to find a little time to do some "number hunting" (find real data to support/debunk (m)any of the "facts" being thrown about in this thread). Here's the best info I was able to obtain:

        CPAN Authors
        YEAR AUTHORS
        1995 58
        1996 121
        1997 183
        1998 306
        1999 441
        2000 590
        2001 761
        2002 994
        2003 1207
        2004 1261
        2005 1303
        2006 1380
        2007 1447
        2008 1573
        2009 1631
        2010 1655
        2011 1671
        2012 1758
        2013 1736
        Shows a drop of 22, from 2012 to 2013. Does this reveal an alarming trend?

        Another interesting statistic is that an Author by the name of tobyink appears to be ranked "3", on the scale of "100 Most Contributing Authors". I could swear I've heard that name before, somewhere. :)

        Well, for what it's worth. That's the best/most revealing data I could come up with.

        --Chris

        #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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