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The State of Scripting Languages
Esther Schindler writes to tell us that Lynn Greiner has another look at the state of the scripting universe as a follow on to the same topic three years ago. Greiner talks to major players from each of the main scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript) to find out the current status and where they are headed in the future. "The biggest change since 2005 has been the growth of richer Web applications that perform more of their computations in the browser using JavaScript. The demand for these applications has forced developers to learn and use JavaScript much more than before. There's also been a lot of interest in Ruby, another dynamic language, spurred by the release and growth of Ruby on Rails. As a result of these changes, many developers are becoming more comfortable with dynamic languages."
> If you can write the same program in language X in 1000 LOC and language Y takes 2000, then you will be finished with language X program much sooner and have fewer bugs.
Clearly you have never seen perl.
People, wake up. WTF that dude in article is talking about? Perl? For infrastructure? Ideal database manipulation?.. Huh?! How come?.. Anyone Perl pro: show me how you do array of dictionaries of arrays of dictionaries and how you do compare these structures and manipulate. Then I will show you how to do it in Python and/or Ruby. And everybody will decide what is ACTUALLY ideal for database manipulation, especially you have 5 minutes to do the job.
Perl is constantly dying step by step, leaving its place to more mature and more EASY languages. Perl has no much future: Perl 6 never released, only blablabla and talks. About Perl 6 just talking about literally for years. In compare, Python 3K is already final beta and soon will be release. Here is a chart, showing that Python is more used world-wide than Perl, afterall...
Ruby also has its remarkable spin...
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Am I missing something?