Comments on: On the ever impending demise of Perl http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/ escape colon w q Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Perl is Dead… or not. http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-5210 Perl is Dead… or not. Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:50:27 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-5210 [...] language of choice for CGI scripting, it’s been “dieing” or “dead”. Perl’s dead, nobody’s using it. Everybody hates it, you can’t read it, you don’t know what [...] [...] language of choice for CGI scripting, it’s been “dieing” or “dead”. Perl’s dead, nobody’s using it. Everybody hates it, you can’t read it, you don’t know what [...]

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-1646 felix Fri, 18 May 2007 20:30:26 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-1646 Shh, no mention of piracy here! You never know who's listening.. hm... :) As for no in house coding, a) that's crazy, b) that someone says it is an industry trend does not necessarily make it so and c) even if it is so, the people who've had it outsourced to are as likely to be using perl as you were. No? Shh, no mention of piracy here! You never know who’s listening.. hm…

:) As for no in house coding, a) that’s crazy, b) that someone says it is an industry trend does not necessarily make it so and c) even if it is so, the people who’ve had it outsourced to are as likely to be using perl as you were. No?

]]> By: robb http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-1642 robb Fri, 18 May 2007 18:41:43 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/18/on-the-ever-impending-demise-of-perl/#comment-1642 me, I think that book sales are not correlated in any way to the number of people actually coding in one language or another. book sales are all about desire. by and large they reflect the number of people that want to code in that language. i'd guess that the ratio of the number of people who own Perl Best Practices or Object Oriented Perl to the number of people who read them is 20:1 or worse. what isn't here is that the O’Reilly perl books are to be had in many places with one google search at any time, thanks to rampant piracy of their bookshelf cds, while pirated ruby books are actually hard to come by. all that said, I think that perl is dying and so are is the job that the perl coder used to occupy. my company has moved to a "no in house coding" position that is rather hard to deal with and they tell me that this is a trend in the industry, which I think is awful. me, I think that book sales are not correlated in any way to the number of people actually coding in one language or another. book sales are all about desire. by and large they reflect the number of people that want to code in that language. i’d guess that the ratio of the number of people who own Perl Best Practices or Object Oriented Perl to the number of people who read them is 20:1 or worse.

what isn’t here is that the O’Reilly perl books are to be had in many places with one google search at any time, thanks to rampant piracy of their bookshelf cds, while pirated ruby books are actually hard to come by.

all that said, I think that perl is dying and so are is the job that the perl coder used to occupy. my company has moved to a “no in house coding” position that is rather hard to deal with and they tell me that this is a trend in the industry, which I think is awful.

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