By that time, Amazon for example had already decided that Perl's time had passed. Another case in point, look at the Google trend for "perl tutorial"[1]. Unfor

By that time, Amazon for example had already decided that Perl's time had passed. Another case in point, look at the Google trend for "perl tutorial"[1]. Unfortunately, that only starts at 2004, but you can still see by that metric, Perl popularity already was in sharp decline when Tiobe still had it fluctuating around a peak. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=perl%20tutorial https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...