Perl is Dead. Long live Perl.

[Kernel]

"Let’s say for a second that Perl actually was dying. Even if that were true, it would be a slow death over years to come. The reason? Businesses have billions of dollars invested in mission critical applications written in Perl that can not be easily replaced."

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[Chan]

No way Perl is dying. I've seen it used recently for new projects in thousands of places. I have to agree with this post/article.

[hoser2001]

Perl is pretty bad ***....

I don't know it very well, but what little experience I had have with it, it is an easy to learn, and powerful language.

[Jordan]

For a scripting language I like Perl. I prefer PHP but we still use Perl quite often here at work I write most of the scripts. I don't see it going away for a very long time.