It seems to me that if the Perl community stopped yelling, "no really, we aren't dead", everyone would stop thinking that. I totally agree with this statement.

It seems to me that if the Perl community stopped yelling, "no really, we aren't dead", everyone would stop thinking that. I totally agree with this statement. However I don't think this survey is being carried out with this purpose in mind. So I'm hopeful that some interesting and perhaps useful metrics will be gathered by this census.