Perl 5.16 and Relevance [LWN.net]

Perl 5.16 and Relevance

Posted Sep 14, 2011 21:57 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Perl 5.16 and Relevance by k8to
Parent article: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Totally useless and meaningless statistics from my Debian Squeeze system:

$ echo /usr/bin/* /bin/* /usr/sbin/* /sbin/* | wc -w          
4619

$ file /usr/bin/* /bin/* /usr/sbin/* /sbin/* | grep -c shell.*script      
621

$ file /usr/bin/* /bin/* /usr/sbin/* /sbin/* | grep -c perl.*script
420

$ file /usr/bin/* /bin/* /usr/sbin/* /sbin/* | grep -c python.*script
198

So shell (typically Bourne shell) is ubiquitous, Perl looks solidly entrenched and Python is indeed up and coming.

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