I'm not so sure: http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl%2Cphp%2Cjavascript http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl%2Cphp%2Cjavascript Anyway, php is still very useful i

I'm not so sure: http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl%2Cphp%2Cjavascript http://www.google.de/trends?q=perl%2Cphp%2Cjavascript Anyway, php is still very useful if you want to put something on the web and have no money. So is javascript although the need to write JS yourself will decrease due to automatic generation of JS etc. I also don't think you necessarily have to learn (ba)sh since you could easily write more complex scripts in any other programming language (i.e. ruby is quite good at that and it's also a very suitable perl-replacement).