Better Perl
Zbigniew Lukasiak
zzbbyy at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 16:48:06 BST 2008
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/04/2008, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This starts to be circular.
>
> Not really.
>
> First you said perl was dead for web startups because nobody else was
> using it one meeting of self-selecting web 2.0 muppets.
>
> Then you said that other languages are breaking into new fields but
> couldn't back it up when I pointed out that you were wrong.
I was answering an email stating that maybe Perl is not number one in
new web stuff - but it is big in the established business. So you see
it was not my claim that you fighted.
>
>
> > what this thread started with was me
> > trying to assess Perl popularity among web startups - I still have not
> > yet seen any sample better than mine - so I'll stay with my conclusion
> > that Perl does not do well in web frameworks.
>
> Define your criteria - I'm pretty impressed with Perl's frameworks -
> there isn't a CMS that I'd pick in Perl, but none in any other
> language that I'd use either. Fortunately I haven't done that in a
> long while so I'm not concerned.
>
>
> > If you have any idea how to improve this discussion so that it does
> > not go in circles - then I'll be grateful.
>
> Learning to trim quotes and sigs would be good ;)
>
> I could also suggest you look harder for perl startups - wibbling on
> perl monks and expecting them to beat a path to your posting isn't
> exactly a serious effort.
>
Looking for perl starups will not give you a good sample to compare
relative use of languages. The idea is to have a representative
sample. There is sound methodology at Tim Bounce's page - and it
shows that overall Perl is still big - but when talking about the
future of the language I would like to see a similar statistics but
narrowed to only startups (and/or younger people).
I can agree with you that a random Y-Combinator event for startups can
be biased - but I have not seen any better sample here. Propose a
sampling methodology and we can discuss. There are many startup
meetings - BarCamp, Geektails, WikiMonday (you have links to their web
pages in my PM post) - we can discuss about them if someone gather the
statistics. Or you can choose some other sampling methodology - but
without it it is just contest on how many companies we remember.
> Come back when you have a survey to match Kirrily Robert's recent one.
I'll have a look at it. It's usage for language popularity comparison
is limited by the fact that it is only about Perl - but it is possible
that you can use it to compare the number of Perl startups to the
number of overall Perl companies.
--
Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
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