If 75% of the people on the train were coding Perl, we'd probably be getting paid a lot less than we do.

I'm not sure what your complaint is regarding Perlmonks and smartphones. My phone has a browser, and I can use it to access PM just fine. I also use the browser rather than the awful Facebook battery muncher even though that's available. You see, that's the great thing about web sites: there are browsers everywhere.