Re: Perl is the most popular scripting language with OnJava.com readers

I'm not sure how good their sampling is of the entire Java community. Being an O'Reilly site, they may inheirently attract some Perl people who happen to write some Java, too. Or even Java people who happen to write some Perl.

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Re: Re: Perl is the most popular scripting language with OnJava.com readers by perrin (Chancellor) on May 21, 2004 at 18:40 UTC
O'Reilly does a booming business in Java books. Just look at how many of them are out and how many are on the "coming soon" list. However, I would agree that there is probably a certain bias in readers of OnJava: pro Open Source sentiment. They are probably not reaching people who wouldn't touch Tomcat with a 10-foot pole.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl is the most popular scripting language with OnJava.com readers by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 22, 2004 at 01:34 UTC
That perception of bias is pretty accurate; I've long argued that ONJava should cover open source Java topics! Looking at the survey, I'm also impressed at the numbers of people deploying on Linux and the BSDs.	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl is the most popular scripting language with OnJava.com readers by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2004 at 21:16 UTC
Java people? Perl people? Dammit Jim I'm a programmer. Java and Perl just happen to be in my toolkit.	[reply]