Perl

Created by Larry Wall in 1987

Rank

#20

Score

0.7—

General-purpose interpreted language

ProceduralObject-orientedFunctional

Key Statistics

Current Rank

#20

Popularity Score

0.7

out of 100

First Released

1987

39 years ago

Trend Direction

↘ Falling

1.1 pts

Created by Larry Wall in 1987

1.81.20.6

Feb 8Feb 22Mar 8

Composite score over the last 5 weeks

Contribution by data source (Total: 0.7)

GitHub(20% weight)

2.6400.0%

Scores are weighted by importance: GitHub (20%), Stack Overflow (20%), Packages (15%), Google Trends (15%), Jobs (15%), Reddit (10%), Tutorials (5%)