Yes. Quite a few tools and products at $dayjob are Perl with active development, multiple large scale revenue numbers attached to them. I use perl daily in my

Yes. Quite a few tools and products at $dayjob are Perl with active development, multiple large scale revenue numbers attached to them. I use perl daily in my work on supercomputers and hpc systems. My code helps configure and control them. It helps simplify users work. No. Perl is not dead by any measure.