One of the posters (Lupe Christoph) turns to job board statistics to show that Perl is doing okay, but I think this is a poor measure. The ideal language for po

One of the posters (Lupe Christoph) turns to job board statistics to show that Perl is doing okay, but I think this is a poor measure. The ideal language for popularity in job board stats would be a legacy language; one that is attracting few new developers but is vital to some part of operations. Sadly I think Perl is headed there, if it isn't there already. I've worked with lots of young developers and they always know PHP, and they never know Perl. Lots of people put Perl on their resume but it isn't deep knowledge, it's just enough to script a cronjob or whatever. You can argue all you want, but if the kids aren't learning it, your language is dead.