Re: [Boston.pm] Perl popularity

James Freeman wrote:
> There is a very interesting article here about programming job postings 
> sorted by language from data derived from www.indeed.com.
> See:
>
> http://devnulled.com/content/2005/01/an-evaluation-of-the-current-technology-job-market-updated/ 
>
> Perl (in this study is the 4th language in popularity...
Interesting.

Though if you eliminate a few of the jobs where Perl is more of a 
side-line, with a query like "perl -administrator -dba", you get a count 
of 15,116, which would push it down to #5, below VB and just slightly 
above C#.
As the article points out, Java and .NET are mentioned in countless job 
postings as "nice to haves," rather than as serious requirements central 
to the position, so it's arguable that the more broad "perl" query is 
closer to an apples-to-apples comparison.
Also note that Python was apparently not included in this survey (or got 
far fewer hits when the data was originally gathered). It gets about 
2000 hits, which places it around position #13.
 -Tom