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• There is more Perl than Python on Freshmeat (Score:1)

  by davidw (9000)

  Everyone knows that the Perl folks use CPAN. I used CPAN well before I'd ever heard of Freshmeat. However, there *are* a lot of projects tagged with Perl on Freshmeat (more than Python ones), so clearly at *some point in time*, Perl people, despite the existence of CPAN, were registering a lot of projects there. That activity has since flatlined. So: why "all of a sudden" (I don't have data, unfortunately, that can point out when and how suddenly this actually happened) are fewer Perl projects showing u
  • Re:There is more Perl than Python on Freshmeat (Score:1)

    by draegtun (6354) on 2009.01.07 9:50 (#66754) Homepage Journal

    Unfortunately your blog post no longer accepts comments so I've made my last reply on my blog at http://draegtun.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/freshmeat-perl-figures-rebuttal/ [wordpress.com]
    
    I think you'll now clearly see that Freshmeat is clearly out of sync with the Perl world.
    
    /I3az/
    
    PS. I'm not into stirring language wars etc. However while you're here and not to pollute either of our blogs I do feel your continuing usage of statements like "Python... is growing, whereas Perl hasn't" & "However, it (Perl) is not as popular as it once was, in terms of new code being written" etc is just plain FUD on your part. If u want langpop.com to remain impartial then u should avoid going down this route.

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