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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by icey on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @05:02PM (#384909)
Removing Java and C from your list makes it much easier to see what's going on: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python%2C+perl%2C+ruby%2C+...
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by patio11 on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:11PM (#385289)
Right. Now view the same stats in Relative (which makes the trending more visible):

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python,+perl,+ruby,+php...

The numbers say what most people know: that set of four languages contains 1 that is mature and 3 that are growing. One of them is growing fairly rapidly relative to where it was when the data set started out.

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by mattmaroon on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:14PM (#385857)
You wouldn't consider PHP mature?
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by icey on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:24PM (#385866)
Or Python, for that matter... I mean, it's 17 years old. It can drive a car and almost vote!
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