And today Perl is declining but still in serious use. It's percentage has dropped by a significant amount, but I would bet the amount of new code has not dropp

And today Perl is declining but still in serious use. It's percentage has dropped by a significant amount, but I would bet the amount of new code has not dropped nearly as much. Also I'm fairly certain that Go is close to a 10 year reaction to Python. (If not it's implementation.) The only difference is that it wasn't done in public. It's so much easier to ignore the years of development when you can hide it.