| >>You might argue that there is still a lot of Perl around according to programming language popularity metrics, but very few if any new things are being done with Perl, at least in this neck of the woods. Perl is used extensively and probably more than any other language in its stride even when it comes to new projects. Unless your definition of new projects are projects which spit out HTML and nothing else. A very big world exists outside web development. >>Want some data? Take a look at TIOBE I don't trust data which includes treats ruby(the programming language) and ruby(stones) or Python(the programming language) and Python(the snake) as same. >>The popular static languages are more popular than the popular dynamic languages by a factor of 4:1. Correction, IDEs of popular static languages(Read Java and C#) are more famous than static languages themselves. Who 'really' programs in those languages these days? Today its all about auto complete magic with armies of low paid mediocre programmers. In fact IDE's are the only reason why static languages are even round. Else who has the time to sit down and write 20 lines of code with 10's of API calls just to open and write a line to a file? For 99% projects programmer time is vastly more expensive than CPU time. |