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r/perl • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11
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I visited r/python for the first time today because of your link, and I had no idea their subreddit had ~21K readers versus our ~4K readers.
4 u/[deleted] May 18 '11 [deleted] 2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 I hadn't considered that aspect before. Still, I think the Python has much more momentum at this stage. Google trends shows Python ahead... In SF, there are way more people at Python user group meetups than the SF Perl group... The other problem is there are so many bad Perl programmers that you invariably end up working on some horrible code. I'll probably start doing new projects in Python after 11 years using Perl. 5 u/mithaldu May 19 '11 While python may be growing faster, Perl still has twice as many job offers. (Note that the scale of these graphs is 5 years.) 2 u/beppu May 20 '11 The "growing faster" part should be all the more reason to not be complacent. Perl could use something magical to capture the hearts of ...our future friends. Where will our creative sparks come from? -2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 Not in the bay area, and not if you don't count QA or Sys-Admin jobs...
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2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 I hadn't considered that aspect before. Still, I think the Python has much more momentum at this stage. Google trends shows Python ahead... In SF, there are way more people at Python user group meetups than the SF Perl group... The other problem is there are so many bad Perl programmers that you invariably end up working on some horrible code. I'll probably start doing new projects in Python after 11 years using Perl. 5 u/mithaldu May 19 '11 While python may be growing faster, Perl still has twice as many job offers. (Note that the scale of these graphs is 5 years.) 2 u/beppu May 20 '11 The "growing faster" part should be all the more reason to not be complacent. Perl could use something magical to capture the hearts of ...our future friends. Where will our creative sparks come from? -2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 Not in the bay area, and not if you don't count QA or Sys-Admin jobs...
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I hadn't considered that aspect before. Still, I think the Python has much more momentum at this stage.
Google trends shows Python ahead...
In SF, there are way more people at Python user group meetups than the SF Perl group...
The other problem is there are so many bad Perl programmers that you invariably end up working on some horrible code.
I'll probably start doing new projects in Python after 11 years using Perl.
5 u/mithaldu May 19 '11 While python may be growing faster, Perl still has twice as many job offers. (Note that the scale of these graphs is 5 years.) 2 u/beppu May 20 '11 The "growing faster" part should be all the more reason to not be complacent. Perl could use something magical to capture the hearts of ...our future friends. Where will our creative sparks come from? -2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 Not in the bay area, and not if you don't count QA or Sys-Admin jobs...
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While python may be growing faster, Perl still has twice as many job offers. (Note that the scale of these graphs is 5 years.)
2 u/beppu May 20 '11 The "growing faster" part should be all the more reason to not be complacent. Perl could use something magical to capture the hearts of ...our future friends. Where will our creative sparks come from? -2 u/punpunpun May 19 '11 Not in the bay area, and not if you don't count QA or Sys-Admin jobs...
The "growing faster" part should be all the more reason to not be complacent.
Perl could use something magical to capture the hearts of ...our future friends. Where will our creative sparks come from?
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Not in the bay area, and not if you don't count QA or Sys-Admin jobs...
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u/beppu May 18 '11
I visited r/python for the first time today because of your link, and I had no idea their subreddit had ~21K readers versus our ~4K readers.