Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

Jorgen Grahn grahn+nntp at snipabacken.se
Tue Nov 25 17:47:12 EST 2008


On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:25:51 -0500, david.lyon at preisshare.net <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:

> Quoting Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com>:
>
>> herald: Python surpasses Perl in popularity!
>>
>> According to
>> ?TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2008? at
>> http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
>> it seems that Python has surpassed Perl in popularity this month!

> Interesting topic !

Hard to take a popularity index seriously when Logo is at #19 and
Bourne shell at #32 ... and then they suggest that their readers can
use it "to make a strategic decision about what programming language
should be adopted when starting to build a new software system".

/Jorgen

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