Others have pointed in in various ways that to help Perl's popularity, it needs to get people's attention to be used. It needs to have a way to solve people's problems better. I don't know how to do that completely, as it will require many different approaches, but I can think of 1 way.

Going back to the more popular days, I'd love to see it used more in web programming. Javascript has taken over the browser, and frankly, I don't like that (because I don't like Javascript). Why can't we have:

<script type='text/perl'>  ...perl code... </script>
[download]

Yeah, there are all kinds of hurdles to overcome with that, starting with:

• adoption by all the major browsers so it could be used
• removing a few parts of CORE for security reasons (e.g. system and family)
• probably need to add a few things, or else pull a few modules in automatically (e.g. CGI, Ajax, etc)
• and probably many more...

But if we could do that, we might see a nice revival of Perl ... not to mention I could use a better language when I have to do client-side work. :)

Kevin

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