Para 2 of OP quotes so much bunkum; FUD, and just plain baloney, I chose to ignore is... in favor a casting my flashlight on this section!

How and why would organizations move away from Perl? Is it because Python is easier to learn? From whatever I have seen of Perl in past few weeks, its one fine language and especially for scripting and text manipulation, I don't think there is any other language that can come even close to it. So why is this step brotherly treatment meted out to it? What would organizations gain by moving away from Perl? Just that fact that there are more Python guys out there than Perl guys?

• Q1: sometimes because non-programmer management hears rumors that some other language is "cooler" (or, more apt to left said manager keep her/his job).
• Q2: It is? Who told you that?
• Q3: Ignorance, jealousy, etc.
• Q4: Sometimes there are legit reasons -- such as moving to a language designed or implemented in such a way as to facilitate certain kinds of computation.
• Q5 (sentence fragment, actually): Where did you hear that? If true, it might make it cheaper for managment to hire skilled snake-charmers than -- say, Perlistae or coders in some other language -- but the popular guesses (and perhaps 'reality') about the number of (allegedly skilled) programmers of a particular language appears -- today, at least -- to have more to do with what's faddish in the academic world.

BTW, the question "stuck in (your) mind" is another instance of a question based on probably inadequate data. Search this site, alone, for prior questions similar to yours, and you'll find data to challenge the assumption in your question. And take a look at how much Cobol is still being maintained and used, out there in the real world.

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