[aklug] Re: Ten Reasons Why PHP Is Still Better Than Ruby

From: Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>
Date: Thu Jun 24 2010 - 13:47:11 AKDT

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:

> The article actually was written last year. I don't know what the
> current stats are on released packages. In this month's TIOBE (for
> whatever it is worth) PHP outranks Perl, and Perl outranks Ruby.

Ah, but TIOBE is based on search engine results, it's not based on actual
code produced for it. Which is what I would think is much more indicative
of the health of a language. Counting the churn and size of OSS code
repositories like CPAN is much more accurate.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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