Re:The Second Age of Perl
by draegtun on Thursday May 27, 2010 @07:04AM
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Nahh, only because it's counting on google hits, it doesn't mean it's worthless
If that were true then you would see quite different results!
Look at sourceforge.net and compare perl and pythons numbers (2700 vs 4200)
Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap) shows Perl & Python with 8905 and 12,149 respectively. Certainly interesting to see that C# has even more opensource projects on there than both Perl & Python with 12,192 :)
Still no good looking at one repo site without comparing with some of the others for a fuller picture. Here are some other figures I just browsed for:
If that were true then you would see quite different results!
Look at sourceforge.net and compare perl and pythons numbers (2700 vs 4200)
Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap) shows Perl & Python with 8905 and 12,149 respectively. Certainly interesting to see that C# has even more opensource projects on there than both Perl & Python with 12,192 :)
Still no good looking at one repo site without comparing with some of the others for a fuller picture. Here are some other figures I just browsed for:
Freshmeat:
Github: (http://github.com/languages) When it comes to site statistics, always take them with a pinch of salt when you try to imply meaning outside of their context!