Please note that it is useful to fill this out if you've used Perl in the past, whether or not you do now. People are sure to analyze the data in a number of ways, and will be interesting to contrast views from people who use the language actively with those who don't any more.
I don't really get the point of these surveys. All they do is quantify what we already know -- lots of people are using Perl, and most people get paid for that. In theory, if the survey asked what areas people were using Perl in, then grants could be given to shore up modules for the popular areas. But if people want to do that, they will do it anyway... and if nobody wants to do it, only someone very desperate for some spare change will do it, with results that match.
So other than liking to click stuff and look at data, I don't get it. It seems to me that if the Perl community stopped yelling, "no really, we aren't dead", everyone would stop thinking that.
It seems to me that if the Perl community stopped yelling, "no really, we aren't dead", everyone would stop thinking that.
I totally agree with this statement.
However I don't think this survey is being carried out with this purpose in mind. So I'm hopeful that some interesting and perhaps useful metrics will be gathered by this census.
A couple ambiguous questions. What other dynamic languages have I formally studied? Does that mean weakly typed? In that case none, though obviously I've picked them up here and there.
> What percentage of your work time working on software projects is spent not writing code?
If we're looking at actual time I spend writing code, probably 5%. But then that's not counting reading code and testing code I've just written. So I don't know, it seems like that's a very small sliver of development when it feels like people are wondering how much time one spends in meetings or doing mockups.
Literally click and hold with one finger and then with another perform an awkward scrolling type movement - usually seems to work but it's hardly elegant!
Actually, the select box options are transformed into a list of divs with some javascript to make it look like a select and then the original select box is hidden.
