>perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers... This is incorrect. Perl is still seeing good adoption by new developers. Now your ar

>perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers... This is incorrect. Perl is still seeing good adoption by new developers. Now your argument could be that it probably not at same rate compared to some of the top languages around at this moment but Perl is still growing. Some facts... - CPAN continues to grow - http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads | http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors - According to this tweet Perl still produces more new repos on Github than languages like Scala, Clojure & Go - https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 >was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl No idea what their decision criteria was however they are plenty of alternative mechanisms/libraries in Perl. See PSGI/Plack for Perl's state of the art solution - http://plackperl.org http://plackperl.org