I have discussed the future of Perl with managers from companies that currently use it and find that they worry about the future of Perl. One company I spoke with here in San Francisco is rewriting their core application in Java.
Two caveats immediately came to mind reading this. First, "One company" -- out of how many (i.e. sample set)? Does one manager trying to be trendy and buzzword happy for his boss constitute a trend?
Second, I wonder how the topic was discussed.. if it was (and i have no idea how it was actually phrased) something like "So, it seems like all the other managers see perl going extinct, what do you think?", that's a lot different than something like "What do you think of the technologies you currently employ?".

I just all read things like this (or pretty much anything that provides "stats") with initial skepticism..

but that aside, although my preferred IDE is vi, more tools can't be a bad thing..

In reply to Re: Perl Needs Better Tools by davidrw
in thread Perl Needs Better Tools by itub

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