Re: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al

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Re^2: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55 UTC
You mean that Python code is unmaintainable? It's a write-only language?	[reply]
Re^3: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2008 at 00:15 UTC
I assume that you are not joking. I will clarify my original point any way: perl's current usage is largely because of all the existing code - you have to maintain them; while python is new, and its usage is largely new development. I believe that this is nothing but fair assessment. Based on this, one has to expect perl to go down with increasing rate, because each year a percentage of those existing apps will be retired - migrated to python or whatever. While at the same time, this is not an issue to python, at least not evident yet.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 14, 2008 at 03:13 UTC
I was joking, but to make a point. What you're saying seems to be based on your own opinion rather than any kind of objective survey. First, there are many well-known Python apps that have been around for years and people certainly get paid to maintain them. We're talking Red Hat utilities, NASDAQ software, Google code, etc. Second, new Perl development is obviously happening since large companies that use Perl like Amazon, Yahoo, and TicketMaster continue to roll out new applications. Some people are starting new projects in Python. Others are starting them in Perl. You have no data about how many are starting in each, but we do have data that there are far more Perl programming jobs than Python ones.	[reply]