On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:23:51 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > "In general-purpose scripting languages, Python continues to grow > slowly, JavaScript and Ruby are treading water, and Perl continues its > long decline. According to Google trends, the number of searches for > Perl is 19% of what it was in 2004. Its declining role in open-source > communities further cements the perception that it's in an irretrievable > tailspin. > One should always be careful pronouncing a language dead or dying, > because rare resurrections have occurred: JavaScript and Objective-C > being two stand-out cases. However, Perl is unlikely to see such a new > lease on life because of direct competition from Python, which is > considerably more popular (whereas Objective-C and JavaScript had no > direct equivalents when they came back)."
Why should we care? We use Python because it's powerful, easy, elegant and all the other things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
