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. -- --gh
