This sounds very much like one person's opinions. There are huge numbers of people using DBI out there and many more who are working on improving both DBI itself or the DBD modules. And then there are all the useful DBIx modules which add functionality to DBI-driven scripts.

I don't see it going away any day soon.

Oh... and your stuff about Perl 6 is pure supposition

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