"Dead perl" reminds me of when Bill Clinton said "you just don't get it" to Bush 41. Essentially meaningless, yet devastatingly true. So, some interesting tidb

"Dead perl" reminds me of when Bill Clinton said "you just don't get it" to Bush 41. Essentially meaningless, yet devastatingly true. So, some interesting tidbits to add to this "conversation": 1. Perl developers are older (on average) than those of other trendier languages. They were there at the dawn of the web. They are more experienced. They are also less expensive. But who wants to be an old-timer who gets paid less? 2. There is a negative feedback situ between developers choosing what technology to learn based on what companies are running on, and companies choosing a technology to run on based on what developers are learning. This sort of tragic loop is a social cancer which takes leadership and risk to overcome. 3. CPAN completely kills the competition. It might have something to do with perl, but it doesn't matter. This thing is outstanding, one of the 5 best things in software engineering... period. If you don't get this, you are deluding yourself and need to take a closer look at it. 4. Perl6 is going to blow the doors off the hinges because it is even more hacker-friendly than perl5 (which is ludicrously hackable). 5. Perl is dead to you.