Eh, kind of. Perl as a teaching language is obviously terrible, but on the other hand Python outside of academia is basically the DSL to call numpy. I think the

Eh, kind of. Perl as a teaching language is obviously terrible, but on the other hand Python outside of academia is basically the DSL to call numpy. I think the problem is, more simply, competition. Now that Perl isn't the only reasonable dynamic language (you have ruby, python, nodejs...), people have more choices, and are ultimately just going to use what they already know as a 'plumbing' language.