This is the first time I have seen anyone blame perl for the dot-com crash. Disclosure: My first and 3rd jobs were slinging perl for dot-coms, one of whom is a

This is the first time I have seen anyone blame perl for the dot-com crash. Disclosure: My first and 3rd jobs were slinging perl for dot-coms, one of whom is a still leader in Web 2.0 or Web 3 or whatever we are on now. PHP is mostly a web templating system, never had much of command-line presence. Perl always did. I don't think you know what you are talking about.