Nahh, only because it's counting on google hits, it doesn't mean it's worthless.
Look at sourceforge.net and compare perl and pythons numbers (2700 vs 4200). And that's where i thought there may be much more perl projects on sf.net since sf.net is quite old and may have a lot of abandoned projects.
It's also in conjunction with my own experience. There may be more job offerings that mention perl (because of decades of legacy scripts) but in general nearly every job interview we've had or every student working for us didn't know perl.
Especially for students: You don't learn Perl (thank god!!) but C, Java, Python, Haskell.
Nahh, only because it's counting on google hits, it doesn't mean it's worthless
If that were true then you would see quite different results!
Look at sourceforge.net and compare perl and pythons numbers (2700 vs 4200)
Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap) shows Perl & Python with 8905 and 12,149 respectively. Certainly interesting to see that C# has even more opensource projects on there than both Perl & Python with 12,192 :)
Still no good looking at one repo site without comparing with some of the others for a fuller picture. Here are some other figures I just browsed for:
Why do people keep quoting TIOBE like it means something?