Perl's been on an upward trajectory for years now I have significant doubts about that (I speak as someone who did perl programming for years). the best Perl

Perl's been on an upward trajectory for years now I have significant doubts about that (I speak as someone who did perl programming for years). the best Perl hackers don't seem to have gone anywhere Depends on who you consider to be the best, but a lot of them have gone to Ruby, Haskell, Clojure, and other more modern languages. Perl had its day. That day was the 1990s and early 2000s.