The context: why am I spending so much time writing about _one_ study (http://rayb.info/uploads/fse2014-lang_study.pdf …) on programming languages? My first thoughts took a day to write (https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/science-turf-war/ …) and my second draft is over 4,000 words long. Why do I care when the answer is so obvious?https://twitter.com/adra_samer/status/1215469422103748610 …
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Replying to @hillelogram
As someone familiar with the Perl ecosystem, I looked into the “3 largest projects” in FSE. I have only heard of Gitolite. I was unable to find a GitHub repo for the second, the third is Ruby. These are definitely nowhere near the largest Perl projects. Doesn’t inspire confidence
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Replying to @rmloveland @hillelogram
The third largest "perl" project appears to be a shell script plus a line vagrant file that's used to spin up Rails dev environments? https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box … Do you think the second might be https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown … ?
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Replying to @danluu @hillelogram
That’s the only “showdown” result I saw too. The GH detection of “Perl” is not amazing. I did get some ok results from the search https://github.com/search?utf8= ✓&q=+size%3A%3E24000+language%3Aperl&type=Repositories
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Replying to @rmloveland @hillelogram
It improved a lot from 201x to 2015 or so. Back then, it was known as a toy, not something you expected to be correct. I was initially surprised that the authors of the paper relied on something so well known to be inaccurate, but given their other mistakes and their...
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...bizarre rebuttal to the rebuttal, I guess it's not so surprising after all.
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