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Paul Graham on great hackers

Posted Jul 30, 2004 7:19 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Paul Graham on great hackers by davidw
Parent article: Paul Graham on great hackers

Last time I looked, there were a lot more Perl than Python jobs advertised on the newsgroups. I think Perl is still far more popular than Python overall, with Python probably more popular amongst open source developers and perhaps Linux users writing new code.

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Posted Jul 30, 2004 8:20 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

Sure, and there will be Perl jobs out there for a long time, lots of new projects written in Perl, and many happy Perl users in general.

That said, I was talking about what I feel the trend is, which is away from Perl, towards Python, and in the web world, towards Java and PHP.