Perl used to be "too big, too popular" and writing Perl apps that plugged into mod_perl was what every company was trying to hire for. PHP will likely be repla

Perl used to be "too big, too popular" and writing Perl apps that plugged into mod_perl was what every company was trying to hire for. PHP will likely be replaced, but not for a long time and it will take time. And there are still a lot of perl hackers out there too, none suffering (aside from having to use perl).