Comments on: Relative Popularity http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/relative-popularity/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/relative-popularity/#comment-8883 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:05:02 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1513#comment-8883 Hi AJ,

No worries – I found your figures interesting too, and I am a huge Perl advocate :)

I figure Python users realise that Perl still has a significant lead and that’s why they invest so much energy into the trash-talking. Rubyists are further behind so they need to catch up a bit before it will be worth it.

Moose is a great library. I have a little experience of Python, and less of Ruby, and from what I know of them, Moose is a step beyond either. For smaller scripts, almost anything will do and the slightly clearer syntax of Python is probably a win for anything less than 100 lines. For large systems it is good to have a well thought out type system.

As to modern perl, that means a lot of things to a lot of different people. For sure, chromatic’s ebook is an asset for the perl community. But anyone who wants to write large maintainable systems in perl has to give some thought as to how they are going to use the language. I suspect it is the same for all languages though.

I’m not sure if I answered your questions there.

]]> By: Alex Turner http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/relative-popularity/#comment-8882 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:42:01 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1513#comment-8882 Thanks for linking to me :)

I totally buy into your ‘trash-talk the leader’ comment. I did not write the post because I am a huge Perl advocate, but because I found the figures interesting. It was amazing so see how much effort people then went to in pursuit of trashing Perl!

I have heard a lot about moose and modern Perl. Any thoughts?

Take care – AJ

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