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Postings from June 2006
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:05, demerphq wrote: > > 1. Perl 5 is a dead language > 2. Perl 5 is going to be replaced by Perl 6 so there is no point in > using Perl 5. > Ancient adage: Divide and Conquer. Perl has split itself between 5 and 6, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, and there is no sign of that ending. I mean it's very nice to see Perl 6 books, but really, on a non-prime-time language in a declining market, what's the point? Even if Perl 6 ever makes it out of the stable, will the damage already have been done? Perl 5 is still going strong, not least because of Nick's resilience as release pumpking, but the perception on the ground floor, (where the jobs are), is that everywhere a manager would once have called for perl, it's being replaced by calls for something else, like in web (goto php), network (goto shell) and application (goto python or java - spot the gui) programming. I don't know what the answer is, but having 2 life boats seems to make everyone else jump onto the big ship. -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/index.html http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=399 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtessentials/index.html