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• Commented on Why does your site not link to perl.org?!
  I'm sure you know more than twelve sites that rely on Perl, perl.org isn't on there, cpan.org isn't on there... My point wasn't that 12 in the top 250,000 was THE %age of sites that use Perl. Rather that, your...
• Commented on Why does your site not link to perl.org?!
  As a life scientist, I used to write code to get projects done. I didn't use Perl. If I wanted to get projects to run faster, with less memory, or on older hardware. I didn't use Perl. If I wanted...

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• Mithaldu commented on Why does your site not link to perl.org?!

  I understand people can often be in a rush, especially when they feel the need to tell someone they're wrong on the internet. But please, do me a favor and look at the first paragraph again. The argument wasn't that i knew 12 perl sites. That was only a thing i noticed while researching the real argument, which was:

  - the survey covered only 0.57% of all websites in the first place
  - the survey had an admitted error margin of at least 17% even on that
  - their methodology was very flawed, meaning the error marging was likely much bigger

  And to answer your unspoken …