"Shadow of what they used to be" is a nice gig if you can get it when the "used to" part was basically the scripting language. Perl is still in top 20 programm

"Shadow of what they used to be" is a nice gig if you can get it when the "used to" part was basically the scripting language. Perl is still in top 20 programming language lists. That's arguably "below the fold" of search results, but hey, so are Lua and Haskell. The Perl Community... I don't know exactly what you mean. I might believe that size in terms of active work on a growing number of modules has dropped; but I don't believe the quality of participation has. Even though I haven't written a line of production Perl in well over a decade I still like checking in every so often to see what they're talking about. And for those for whom all you know about Perl 6 is its delayed arrival and related woes, I can guarantee there's more interesting things to be seen.