The Ring of Perl
I see a post entitled Perl 5 Programmers Are Dying, and all I can think of is The Ring. Odd, eh?
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This plays into the whole thing I’ve noticed where people list HTML as a “programming language”. It’s not. I’m not even sure I’d consider PHP much of a programming language given its typical usage pattern. I don’t want to group the world into “real programmers” and “web programmers”, but there are people who do web pages with a little code, and there are programmers who write code that occasionally needs some HTML.
One is not better than the other, but they are certainly not interchangeable.
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one of the points that the article brings up is that there is growth in Ruby and PHP. well, not to put down people who use both languages, but much of what you see in terms of web applications built on these languages boils down to moving data to and from a database. slap some ajax and nice graphics on top of it, and you’ve got a pretty webpage. (and quite frankly, most of the hard work of talking to the database (and ajax) are done for you.)
maybe the problem isn’t so much that “perl programmers” are dying, but that people who can actually program are dying.