Re: [MacPerl] The Perl Usage Survey Continues...

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 7:26 PM -0800 12/2/98, Doug McNutt wrote:
>I found it difficult to understand how 0.75 can be split four ways with
>each
>way getting more than 0.25. The real numbers are shown below.

1276 of the 5093 respondents checked the "MacPerl" box in the survey,
leading to a percentage of 25.0539956 (roughly :-).  Given that the top
10 OS's total 13612 respondents, it's quite clear that many of the 5093
respondents checked more than one box.

>What is interesting is that a fairly large percentage of MacOS users
>apparently use Perl.  Much higher than the percentage of M$ users.

Interesting, but not all that surprising.  MacPerl has been around for
several years and is a mature implementation.  Windoze Perls are still
in pretty poor shape (or so I'm told :-).  Also, M$ works hard to get
folks to use VB, etc.  All Apple has to offer is AppleScrap, which is
not a reasonable alternative to MacPerl for many applications...

-r
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