Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

[AJ Dhaliwal]

On 20/03/13 16:47, Greg McCarroll wrote:
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> On 20 Mar 2013, at 08:20, AJ Dhaliwal wrote:
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>> "It is possible that Perl became less of the duct tape of the 
>> internet because of JavaScript."
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>> Didn't know Perl ever competed with Javascript?
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> I think at a certain point UI/UX became more important than just 
> serving up information, Flickr might be the most significant milestone 
> of this change. This arguably made JS a more significant language for 
> web development. Now throw in node.js and recently you could build 
> another argument for the importance of JS.
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> G.
>
Good points. I wonder about node.js. JS was designed to be a scripting 
language. Aren't they pushing it too far with node.js? I admit I have 
only heard about it and don't have an in depth understanding of their 
approach.