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Dave Cross has posted Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall about current misconceptions about Perl and how those misconceptions came to be.

Can We Move On?

Dotcom Survivor Syndrome is real. So is Version Number Paralysis. Together, they’ve unfairly buried a language that remains fast, expressive, and battle-tested.

We can’t change the past. But we can:

• Acknowledge the emotional and historical baggage
• Celebrate the role Perl played in inventing the modern web
• Educate developers about what Perl really is today
• Push back against the assumption that old == obsolete

Certain vendors have certainly played the appeal to novelty fallacy to its outer limits to sell their own gimmicks while simultaneously maligning Perl. That'll take a lot to overcome, but is doable.

Yes, it's December again which means that it is time for the Perl Advent Calendar.

It is not too late to contribute to the calendar as they do not yet have 24 articles ready to go and are soliciting entries via the github repo. If there is a favourite module you think the world should know about or some insight you have gained from a particular project now would be a good time to write it up and submit it.

Happy Advent!