From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Robert Fischer <robert@fischerventure.com>
Cc: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>, OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:22:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194247368.27745.7.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472E94E8.3060905@fischerventure.com>
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 21:58 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote:
> The announcement of Perl's death has been widely exaggerated: go ask
> your local Unix admin if Perl is dead.
Perl is dead in the sense of a developing language: sure, there
are still Perl scripts around, and people use it, and maybe
Perl 6 will actually happen ..
> Python is the interesting case, because it came out after Perl, but
> still managed to gain a fairly significant following. It's still not
> terribly widely adopted and particularly not widely adopted in
> industry, so it doesn't manage to be a counterpoint to the basic
> argument.
That's not so clear to me: at least here in Australia Python has
a small but significant commercial toehold, certainly much larger
than Perl. However PHP is now bigger and Ruby with Rails is set
to wipe both out.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 12:01 Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Jon Harrop
2007-11-04 15:06 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:12 ` skaller
2007-11-04 16:48 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:45 ` skaller
2007-11-04 21:29 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:47 ` David Allsopp
2007-11-04 21:25 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:58 ` Industry looks for commercial OCaml support? Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:52 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-04 21:39 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-05 3:32 ` skaller
2007-11-05 3:58 ` OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages Robert Fischer
2007-11-05 5:04 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 15:55 ` Alan Falloon
2007-11-07 16:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 16:41 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 18:46 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-07 19:28 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-05 7:22 ` skaller [this message]
2007-11-05 5:05 ` [Caml-list] Industry looks for commercial OCaml support? Jon Harrop
2007-11-04 18:29 ` [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Vincent Hanquez
2007-11-08 18:28 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 19:09 ` Luc Maranget
2007-11-08 20:24 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 20:53 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-08 23:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 19:14 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-08 23:08 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-09 12:16 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-09 12:31 ` Richard Jones
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