RIse and fall of languages in 2012

[Walter Hurry]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:23:51 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> "In general-purpose scripting languages, Python continues to grow
> slowly, JavaScript and Ruby are treading water, and Perl continues its
> long decline. According to Google trends, the number of searches for
> Perl is 19% of what it was in 2004. Its declining role in open-source
> communities further cements the perception that it's in an irretrievable
> tailspin.
> One should always be careful pronouncing a language dead or dying,
> because rare resurrections have occurred: JavaScript and Objective-C
> being two stand-out cases. However, Perl is unlikely to see such a new
> lease on life because of direct competition from Python, which is
> considerably more popular (whereas Objective-C and JavaScript had no
> direct equivalents when they came back)."

Why should we care? We use Python because it's powerful, easy, elegant  
and all the other things.