My guess is that Perl has been silently chugging along in the background, while Ruby (with Rails) and Python (with Django) popped into the spotlight under highe

My guess is that Perl has been silently chugging along in the background, while Ruby (with Rails) and Python (with Django) popped into the spotlight under higher scrutiny. Perl hasn't had a popular framework that has built as large a community of users (and detractors) as any other. They do have frameworks (like Catalyst), but nothing that has gathered as much attention.