Posted by gaurav on Tue 12 May 2009 at 10:59
Lukas Biewald of Dolores Labs downloaded the last 150 Twitter messages referring to different popular programming languages, then crowdsourced people through Amazon Mechanical Turk to judge each message as being positive or negative towards that language. He found that Perl, with over 60% of its messages being positive, had a higher percentage of positive feedback than any other language in the study. This compares to about 55% positive feedback for Ruby and 45% positive feedback for Python.
Of course, this is well-known as an important Perl language design goal: What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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