From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ABFBC6B for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:27:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACxULkfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOcAIBCAop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,370,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18939111" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2007 08:27:09 +0100 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA57R82I003073 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:27:08 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAN9TLkfLENaNnmdsb2JhbACOcAIBAQcEBhEY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,370,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="4044511" Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.141]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2007 08:27:06 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAKVQLkd5LH/+Wmdsb2JhbAAMjloBIA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,370,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="221608141" Received: from ppp121-44-127-254.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.127.254]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2007 17:52:51 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages From: skaller To: Robert Fischer Cc: Oliver Bandel , OCaml In-Reply-To: <472E94E8.3060905@fischerventure.com> References: <200711041201.10255.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1194188801.472de001905ce@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194192721.25159.14.camel@rosella.wigram> <1194195509.472dfa35d5fcc@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194198721.25159.25.camel@rosella.wigram> <1194212381.472e3c1dc861a@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194233546.27580.4.camel@rosella.wigram> <472E94E8.3060905@fischerventure.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:22:48 +1100 Message-Id: <1194247368.27745.7.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 472EC5CC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; perl's:01 wipe:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 argument:02 python:03 python:03 terribly:03 languages:03 programming:03 john:08 certainly:09 scripts:09 On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 21:58 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote: > The announcement of Perl's death has been widely exaggerated: go ask > your local Unix admin if Perl is dead. Perl is dead in the sense of a developing language: sure, there are still Perl scripts around, and people use it, and maybe Perl 6 will actually happen .. > Python is the interesting case, because it came out after Perl, but > still managed to gain a fairly significant following. It's still not > terribly widely adopted and particularly not widely adopted in > industry, so it doesn't manage to be a counterpoint to the basic > argument. That's not so clear to me: at least here in Australia Python has a small but significant commercial toehold, certainly much larger than Perl. However PHP is now bigger and Ruby with Rails is set to wipe both out. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net