SPUG: Knock Knock

[Croote, Rick]

In my group we still rely on Perl 5 for the glue and automation.  It is running some of the web, most anything automated for running many (lost count) builds a night plus continuous.  We use C# for most any database or GUI application, having abandoned the old PerlTK and not adopting the TCL/TK from Perl way.  Our SW builds are driven by Python, but that is because we use SCons, or most likely that would also be Perl, well it was, under Cons.

We really do not do scripting, we write applications and infrastructure using only OO.

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From: spug-list [mailto:spug-list-bounces+rick.croote=philips.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Mark Swayne
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 3:58 PM
To: Joshua D. Drake
Cc: Chris Nandor; SPUG Members
Subject: Re: SPUG: Knock Knock

There's an interesting YAPC talk about Perl usage that features some data that calls what you are asserting into question. His data shows a significant number of new (1-3 years) Perl devs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5Q4iPBNKM
FWIW Perl5 is back in TIOBE's top 10 with a growth rate exceeding that of all but one of the other to 10 languages.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index

Perl is growing nicely.  It's just not the pre-eminent web language it once was.  It seems to get mostly used for data munging and automation.



On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd at commandprompt.com<mailto:jd at commandprompt.com>> wrote:
On 07/07/2016 05:00 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:
I've never stopped using Perl as my primary language ...

Yes but the idea of "revival" assumes lots of new people are using the language, which is not true (compared to others growth).

JD


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