Well, ever sinds CGI-BIN was deprecated in favor of other methods, like node.js (mojolicious is too hard to write) the winds in the perl-sails have dwindled officially. As the starting-to-learn-programming language is anything but perl (python, java, etc) there is little influx of new people.

Perl is not the only taking a hit. There are internet stories out there about critical stuff is maintained by lone wolves (I tip my hat to them) and a single death would kill maintenance.

I feel that the ratio of users (consumers) is too high compared to the amount of admins (tinkerers).

Perl5? It will not sink. It is designed to float, barely above the waves. And like the relation between C and C++ (two different, incompatible, languages)... so shall it have its own twin... consider matching a dot . and any character \.

Depressing? Nah... it's like an aged wine. Enjoy the tranquility.

disclosure: I still use perl4 (as it is embedded in a monitoring software I use). At work we still use 5.6, 5.8 at most. And most new syntax stuff is incomplete anyway.

In reply to Re: It's so easy to become complacent. by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread It's so easy to become complacent. by BrowserUk

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