85% languages (was Re:Linux fat/bloated)

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

So PHP, Java, are just hitting puberty, Ruby has its hormones raging, Python is now an obnoxious teenager, Perl just hit adulthood and is confused, and tcl is pushing middle age and is complaining about its back and knees going.

Of course Fortran is looking to retire, but can't convince anyone to let it.

Bill
 
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:33:06PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:03:45PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> > > Minor point, but Perl has been around for longer than I care to admit
> > > knowing about.  Certainly much longer than relative newcomers like Ruby,
> > > PHP, python or even TCL.
> > 
> > Ruby is a lot older than you realise.  =)
> 
> Looks to me like:
> PHP: 1995
> Java: 1995
> Ruby: 1993
> Python: 1991
> Perl: 1987
> TCL: 1968 (hardly a newcomer)
> 
> I think TCL is the one I most object to be considered a newcomer, at
> least compared to perl. :)
> 
> Len Sorensen
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