That was later though. Interest in Perl was already declining a bit then. And the problem was more that the design and implementation of Perl 6 (now Raku) took

That was later though. Interest in Perl was already declining a bit then. And the problem was more that the design and implementation of Perl 6 (now Raku) took extremely long, and attention to Perl 5 suffered from that, as Perlistas thought Perl 6 would be the Next Great Thing.