Apparently, though unproven, at 14:36 on Sunday 02 January 2011, Lubos Kolouch did opine thusly:
> Indexer, Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +1030: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/01/2011, at 09:04, Grant wrote: > >> I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people > >> subscribed to this list. > >> > >> I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will > >> interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the > >> two projects might be both of them having access to the same database > >> table. The old project is written in a language that is related to > >> perl so I can imagine there would be some benefit to using perl for the > >> new project. Am I foolish to start a new project in perl at this stage > >> in its lifecycle? I won't be doing the coding myself and I wonder if I > >> would be better off with PHP since more coders seem to be familiar with > >> PHP than perl. > > > > TBH use neither, most people are jumping away from PHP and Perl. > > I am not sure who is "most people" but I do almost all my coding in Perl > and love it. Perl has great features and is very cleverly designed > language! > > Lubos "Most people" is usually something like "someone who's blog I read and my two friends". In other words, not even close to a mass migration away. Perl has one of the healthiest code ecosystems ever. It's not going away anytime soon. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
