Re^4: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?

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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Re^5: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?
by taint (Chaplain) on Nov 25, 2013 at 16:14 UTC

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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