I'm not even going to comment on "Perl is dead", of course it isn't, but sometimes it's invisible.

I don't know if people have been following the Microsoft/Eolas case, but it may mean that web pages have to be re-coded for a new version of IE, if they contain plugins like Flash.

Macromedia, the makers of Flash, came up with what they called a "command line utility" which you could use to check which pages on your site were vulnerable to this problem.

They say "command line utility" but you and I might just call it a "Perl script"...

So when there was a big text-munging problem that needed to be solved quickly, they used Perl. They just didn't say they used Perl...