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From:
Guy Hulbert
Date:
January 5, 2011 10:09
Subject:
Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl
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1294250988.1658.844.camel@cray.home.cotef.net
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 20:51 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> 'serious project' ???
> 
> For some 'serious' people, Perl6 is a 'serious project'. Concepts of 
> 'serious' differ amongst reasonable people. Not a problem if your 
> 'serious' aint my 'serious'. 

For programming languages, there are rankings by number of developers.

A Historical Example
--------------------

====	========
Date	Number
====	========
1979	1
1980	16
1981	38
1982	85
1983	??+2
1984	??+50
1985	500
1986	2,000
1987	4,000
1988	15,000
1989	50,000
1990	150,000
1991	400,000
====	========

Taken from the language author's "Design and Evolution" book. Chapter 7.

My wife was sent on a course to learn this language in the early 1990s.

So you have about 10 years to get started.

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