On Monday, 2009-03-23 at 11:55:46 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Octavian Râsnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is true. Less and less programmers use perl, and in most parts of the > > world it is hard to find competent perl programmers.
> Unless you have some evidence of this, stop spreading FUD. The job > listings for Perl are strong. They're huge compared to those for > Ruby. Of course Java is massively more popular than either of them, > but that doesn't make the perl market small. Figures from the German freelancer market, Gulp (www.gulp.de): CVs (called profiles, a total of 60823 are available) with: Perl 5470 Ruby 234 Java 11261 About two Java programmers perl Perl programmer. About 23 Perl programmers per Ruby programmer. (Germans are known to be conservative...) Projects (total 1317) mentioning Perl 54 Ruby 4 Java 153 The programmer-to-project ratios are: Perl 101 Ruby 58 Java 73 So, yes, Perl is a bad choice. It is the language with the most competition. Go for Ruby! There may be only four projetcs, but you have less competition to fear! :-) Lupe Christoph -- | There is no substitute for bad design except worse design. | | /me |
