Today I checked the 1,000 most recently uploaded modules again:
| Date | Has license | Has repository link |
| December 2012 | 82.6% | 49.6% |
| February 2013 | 83.4% | 49.7% |
| July 2013 | 87% | 60.1% |
| September 2013 | 85% | 68% |
Checking the 5,000 most recent uploaded modules:
| Date | Has license | Has repository link |
| September 201… |
Recently I checked the number of links form the English version of Wikipedia to search.cpan.org and to MetaCPAN.
I even posted it to Reddit that got quite a mixed reaction (18 upvotes 11 downvotes) but many of the links were updated.
Of course there is more to Wikipedia than the English version, so I checked the numbers for the 10 languages listed at the top of Wikipedia and these are the numbers:
A few weeks ago, to the encouragement of Jeffrey Thalhammer,
For now my main f…
Maxim Yemelyanov pointed me to this post comparing programming languages based on the number of new GitHub repositories in the first 8 months of 2012 and 2013.
Interestingly the numbers dropped significantly for every language (except JavaScript).
Perl dropped a lot more (in percentage) than other languages (from 48,620 to 15,412).
Some Perl repositories might be miscategorized by GitHub which might add to the low number, but then either it got worse in the last year,…
I wonder, is anyone using Galileo CMS? Could you please post a link to the site?
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