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On the future of Perl 5

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:47 UTC (Wed) by davidw (subscriber, #947)
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

He's basing his arguments on TIOBE though. It's impossible to get good numbers, but I'd like to think my approach with LangPop.com is at least a little bit better. I mean... Logo and Delphi?!


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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 23:22 UTC (Wed) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link]

Delphi is in the top 10 because of the programming language Oxygene (formerly Chrome), a port of Delphi to .Net. Around the time Google released a web browser, searches for "Chrome programming" increased dramatically.

I leave the relevance of TIOBE's other statistics as an exercise for the reader.

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