"Supposedly Perl Web searches are on the rise"
Fact check:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=perl&ctab=0&geo=all&#...
Perl has been losing ground, while Python and PHP gain ground, for almost ten years:
Fact check:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=perl&ctab=0&geo=all&#...
Perl has been losing ground, while Python and PHP gain ground, for almost ten years:
Plus Perl5 generates a lot more search.cpan.org searches than google searches during normal use - we don't generally hit google very much because it doesn't have the information we need. So I could argue that CPAN's been getting better and Python and PHP have continued to fail at having an equivalent. And I'd be making just as much of an unfounded guess as both you and the article attuhor are by guessing web search volumes matter.
Of course, http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... shows Perl5 and python and ruby all losing ground, but the other two significantly faster. I'm sure if I tried I could find you plenty more statistics that look good for Perl5 but don't really prove anything :)
So I think there is something deeper here than "everyone is moving away from Perl".
Absolute number of jobs for each language.