> I think the Perl community had a lot to do with Perl falling off in popularity. The standard reply to questions posted the "Beginners Perl" mailing list was "

> I think the Perl community had a lot to do with Perl falling off in popularity. The standard reply to questions posted the "Beginners Perl" mailing list was "RTFM dumbass". Perl is the only language where devs see unreadability as a badge of coolness, indeed there was even an Obfuscated Perl Contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest (There are golfing competitions in other languages, for example js1k, but the focus there is download size, the fact the code is obfuscated is a side effect rather than the point)