Perl Survey 2007

The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD collection, we'd love to hear about it.

We're trying to answer questions like:

  • Where do Perl programmers come from?
  • What sort of fields do they work in?
  • What languages -- computer and spoken -- do Perl programmers use?
  • How many use Perl as their primary language?
  • What proportion of Perl users participate in the Perl community through mailing lists, user groups, and conferences?

4575 Perl programmers have taken the survey so far.

News

October 13th, 2007 Data set available

The Perl Survey data is now available for download from the results page, soon to be followed by the official report. Meanwhile, Michael Schwern will be presenting the first view of the results in a keynote at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop on October 12th.

October 1st, 2007 Survey closed

The survey is now closed. I'll be collating results, and they'll be available on this site, as well as being presented at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, around October 13th.

September 27th, 2007 Last chance to take the Perl Survey

The survey will close on September 30th. If you haven't taken it yet, please do so now.

September 2nd, 2007Google supports Perl Survey; and this week is sysadmin week

Google have generously provided a grant to help the Perl Survey reach more people. Throughout the month of September, you may see the Perl Survey showing up in Google AdWords advertisements when you search on Google or in contextual ads on other sites.

In order to reach different groups of Perl users, I'll be focussing on a different set each week. This week is sysadmin week, so if you know any sysadmins who use Perl -- even a little bit -- please get them to take the Perl survey!

September 2nd, 20074,000 and counting!

Over four thousand people have taken the Perl Survey. Wow!

August 13th, 2007Translations available

The Perl Survey has been translated into a number of different languages by some wonderful, wonderful volunteers. These include everything from Swedish to Indonesian. See the full list on our translations page. And if you'd like to contribute a translation, you can find instructions there too.

July 28th, 20071000 responses

We've had more than a thousand responses in about a day and a half. Wow!

July 28th, 2007Discussion mailing list

I've just set up a mailing list, perlsurvey-discuss, for anyone who'd like to discuss things like how to get a wide range of people to fill in the survey, ways to improve the survey next time, what we want to learn from the survey, and so on. If you'd like to take part please do feel free to subscribe.

July 26th, 2007Wanted: buttons and banners

Got graphics skills? I don't, or not much anyway. If you're good with Gimp or Photoshop and would like to help out by making some buttons and banners for people to put on their websites, email me and let's talk.

July 26th, 2007Perl Survey launches

The inaugural survey of the Perl world launches on July 26th, 2007, just in time for Schwern to tell everyone about it at OSCON.