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The Perl Future (Heise)

The Perl Future (Heise)

Posted Jan 13, 2009 15:16 UTC (Tue) by frankie (subscriber, #13593)
In reply to: The Perl Future (Heise) by dlang
Parent article: The Perl Future (Heise)

> I suspect that more people use perl today, even if it is a smaller
> percentage, simply becouse there are more people involved.

I still use perl because there far more packages available than for any other scripting language: CPAN rules.


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The Perl Future (Heise)

Posted Jan 13, 2009 20:55 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

That no doubt used to be true. But looking at the requirements of my recent projects, Python comes out better. For example, I recently needed bindings for talking to Beagle search. The options are C#, C, and Python.

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