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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We really do not do scripting, we write applications and infrastructure using only OO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:blue"><a href="http://pww.directory.healthcare.philips.com/empl.asp?id=xADOxkTMwADM">Rick Croote</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Work: 425-487-7834<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> spug-list [mailto:spug-list-bounces+rick.croote=philips.com@pm.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Swayne<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 08, 2016 3:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joshua D. Drake<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Chris Nandor; SPUG Members<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: SPUG: Knock Knock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5Q4iPBNKM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5Q4iPBNKM</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<br>
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<a href="http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index">http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Joshua D. Drake <<a href="mailto:jd@commandprompt.com" target="_blank">jd@commandprompt.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 07/07/2016 05:00 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I've never stopped using Perl as my primary language ...<o:p></o:p></p>
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Yes but the idea of "revival" assumes lots of new people are using the language, which is not true (compared to others growth).<span style="color:#888888"><br>
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