"I believe that Python's popularity has to do with ... O'Grady compared Python to Perl in its heyday because Python has become a "language of first resort" and the "glue" for thousands of small ...

Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago, Perl has seen a continuous decline in popularity since ... changed from Perl to Python and Ruby as the scripting language to be used,” Jansen said.

Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language ... comparing it to Perl in its heyday because it has become a "language of first resort" and the "glue ...

It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to its rival Python, Perl has faded from popularity. What happened to ...

New programming language popularity reports are out for April 2018, with one index showing Python on track to upstage perennial No. 1 Java and another showing Perl is "having a hard time." Java has ...

"Not a surprise with the popularity of AI; [Python] has popular AI libraries ... PHP (2.919), JavaScript (2.862), assembly language (2.539), and Perl (2.338). For PyPL, Java finished first with ...

"Python, which started as a simple scripting language, as an alternative to Perl, has become mature ... has made it the most popular programming language of today," said Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen.

Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language Your email has been ... Along with the big upset at the top of the index, R, Perl, and Go are all boasting positive ...

New programming language popularity reports are out ... But industry is adopting Python as well. The Python programming language started as a successor of Perl to write build scripts and all kind of ...