The same things could be argued as for why, why C didn't win, or C++ didn't win, or even really PASCAL/Smalltalk/Lisp didn't win. "Winning" is temporary and no

The same things could be argued as for why, why C didn't win, or C++ didn't win, or even really PASCAL/Smalltalk/Lisp didn't win. "Winning" is temporary and not the end goal of any language and is best left to be declared by Charlie Sheen like pundits trying to demonstrate their language bigotry. Is Perl the first tool that some of us think of when solving a problem? It might not be for you but it is frequently for me. Ruby might be your first choice, and really that's fine. You're not a lesser or better programmer than anyone else if you choose something besides Perl either. Honestly, if you can solve the problems that you need to solve and you can work with your team, that's the only thing that matters. Not that you're using some language that isn't "winning". As for Perl not having support for recent things like Stripe, that's just silly to argue (the author really should have searched the CPAN). Perl has many new modules, Dancer, Catalyst, Moose, Plack, Starman, Net::Stripe (maintained by me), and full support of AWS's offerings. And, yes modules written in 1999 do get used today, just look at all of LWP. "Winning" isn't everything. Admittedly, Perl 6 isn't out or even moving forward visibly but doesn't mean that the language is irrelevant. Just watch https://metacpan.org/recent https://metacpan.org/recent to see the pulse of the community and the new modules released and updated daily.