Php had pretty good docs online. COBOL presumably has good docs (though I think it’s a bad example and not used much). Perl used to have a thriving online commu

Php had pretty good docs online. COBOL presumably has good docs (though I think it’s a bad example and not used much). Perl used to have a thriving online community so it seems pretty conceivable to me that people could like the language. And CPAN still exists and is full of reasonably practical packages for doing lots of reasonable things, as well as packages like marpa which don’t really have equivalents outside of Perl.