Cheers for that. :)

I've never looked into TIOBE because I'm not particularly interested in it, but it sounds like it might be just what it sounds like it might be...a very crude metric, and obviously the input of "skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors" amounts to "because they use search engines too" and not that this criteria receives any special weight beyond the special weight of a bait and switch sales pitch by TIOBE.

Perhaps the "hayday" that JavaFan refers to needs a clearer definition. If it means, occupying the avante garde spot for dynamically typed, GC'd, runtime interpreted languages, maybe so, but that's because subsequently there became a bandwagon for such beasts, and the possibility of a singularity disappeared. Once the road's been paved, the glory of trailblazing is over.

But in any case: viva la renaissance ;)

In reply to Re^8: Why is perl so frequently used for automation? by halfcountplus
in thread Why is perl so frequently used for automation? by panda14

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