Re: Perl losing momentum ?

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On Perl vs the rest, please read

L. Prechelt, "An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl", IEEE Computer, 2000.

On GUI for Perl, I asked wxGlade to separate the function from the form, and thus make the code intellectually manageable (possibly better than Perl/Tk). My notes are on their mailing list. They promised to work on it, but the project has a clear drive for Python.

On the poor documentation and ugly coding of wxPerl, I have left notes on this too in their mailing list, long ago. I left with the certainty that it was not going to improve, unless someone with expertise on Perl/Tk would have taken the royal project to redesign wxPerl from where M. Barbon has left.---I looked for notes on how to port Perl GUIs from Tk to Wx, but had seen none so far.

On Perl 5.10.0, after two/three months, there are still too many modules that are not up-to-date, mostly because they do not compile and need patches.