Re^3: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!

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Can you please specify why?

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Re^4: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 12, 2011 at 15:36 UTC
When I first looked at the TIOBE methodology some years ago, all they did was searching google, yahoo and the microsoft search engine (precursor to bing) for "$language programming" and counted the matches, and did some kind of averaging. Needless to say that this correlates only very, very weakly with the actual popularity of the language. I believe that TIOBE now uses more sources, but IMHO the stigma of unscientific approach and FUD still sticks to their "data". Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]

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Re^4: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 12, 2011 at 15:36 UTC

When I first looked at the TIOBE methodology some years ago, all they did was searching google, yahoo and the microsoft search engine (precursor to bing) for "$language programming" and counted the matches, and did some kind of averaging.

Needless to say that this correlates only very, very weakly with the actual popularity of the language.

I believe that TIOBE now uses more sources, but IMHO the stigma of unscientific approach and FUD still sticks to their "data".

Perl 6 - second systems done right

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