Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.
AJ Dhaliwal
adhaliwal34 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 08:58:38 GMT 2013
On 20/03/13 16:47, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> On 20 Mar 2013, at 08:20, AJ Dhaliwal wrote:
>
>>
>> "It is possible that Perl became less of the duct tape of the
>> internet because of JavaScript."
>>
>> Didn't know Perl ever competed with Javascript?
>>
>
> I think at a certain point UI/UX became more important than just
> serving up information, Flickr might be the most significant milestone
> of this change. This arguably made JS a more significant language for
> web development. Now throw in node.js and recently you could build
> another argument for the importance of JS.
>
> G.
>
Good points. I wonder about node.js. JS was designed to be a scripting
language. Aren't they pushing it too far with node.js? I admit I have
only heard about it and don't have an in depth understanding of their
approach.
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