Python beats Perl

I like this news:

The TIOBE Programming Community Index has declared Python as the Programming Language of 2007 due to a 58% surge in its popularity rating during the year, making it now the sixth most popular programming language and finally surpassing Perl. They also assert that Python has become the “defacto glue language,” being “especially beloved by system administrators and build managers.”

One of my goals in life is to never learn Perl. I had a few close calls over the years, but now I think I just might make it.

When I need to write a script, I use bash for the simpler stuff and Python for the more complicated. I used to be able to write stupefying sed/awk scripts, but now I’ll do that in Python, too.

Btw, the TIOBE link above tries to gage programming languages’ popularity, though carefully qualifying it: “Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language…”