This is a bit unfair, most programming languages do get their share of advocacy. I would agree if you say that Perl is getting the bad type of advocacy, or tha

This is a bit unfair, most programming languages do get their share of advocacy. I would agree if you say that Perl is getting the bad type of advocacy, or that those who are advocating Perl are not doing a good job! Ruby get a lot of "good" advocacy, which sound like ... "Hey I did X in Ruby, Ruby is awesome, Ruby is teh SHIZNET!" Python normally get this type of advocacy, "...hey look how you can do the same X in Python, but now its better" Perl's advocacy, sounds like "...Perl is not dead!", which I agree sound like a scary statement to make! But anyway, all languages get some sort of advocacy! Perl is actually late in the advocacy game, I guess this is why it so far gets the worst kind.