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I make my living writing single-page web apps in JavaScript. These days, everything I do, even on the server, is in JavaScript.
What does Perl do a hundred times better than the latest in the JavaScript universe (ES6, Meteor, node.js, etc.)? If it doesn't, that right there is your answer.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Perl%2C%20JavaScript&...
And they both have a similar decline.
I compared perl and JavaScript: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Perl%2C%20JavaScript&... And they both have a similar decline.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ada%2C%20JavaScript&c...
I compared perl and JavaScript: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Perl%2C%20JavaScript&... And they both have a similar decline.
It's fairly obvious that the python programming language results are fairly drowned out by the Monty Python and snake results, as illustrated by all the news headlines shown for python, and by related topics and queries. That's not to say that the trend shown is entirely incorrect, just that it would be mostly coincidental to the data shown here.
Comparing 'perl language' and 'python language' shows a similar trend: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%20language%2C%20...
To be clear, I don't doubt there is a drop in Perl mindshare and usage, I just don't think the original comparison, or the alternative one you posted, really shows a relation between Perl and Python in any meaningful way.
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Comparing 'perl language' and 'python language' shows a similar trend: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%20language%2C%20...
Which falls prey to the fact that people don't need to disambiguate "perl" when searching, but often do for "python". Changing it to "perl" and "python language" isn't very useful either, as it so severely limits the python query as to be unusable. To be clear, I don't doubt there is a drop in Perl mindshare and usage, I just don't think the original comparison, or the alternative one you posted, really shows a relat…
It's fairly obvious that the python programming language results are fairly drowned out by the Monty Python and snake results, as illustrated by all the news headlines shown for python, and by related topics and queries. That's not to say that the trend shown is entirely incorrect, just that it would be mostly coincidental to the data shown here.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl,+python&cmpt=q&c...
I think it's better to flip the question around: I make my living writing single-page web apps in JavaScript. These days, everything I do, even on the server, is in JavaScript. What does Perl do a hundred times better than the latest in the JavaScript universe (ES6, Meteor, node.js, etc.)? If it doesn't, that right there is your answer.
perl does one thing hundred times better than (server-side) JavaScript: when you need to get data out of a server that you have no sudo privilege because your boss asked you to get stats on your trades ASAP.
This happens shockingly frequently in finance, and perl (and actually, awk) was the only scripting language that I could safely assume was installed.