Update: this was meant to be a reply to the original post, not dragonchild's. The statement quoted was in the original post.

"This is because the people who make the decision about which architecture to use (middle managers) generally have no clue about the technical merits of the various solutions."

This has been repeatedly quoted as the reason why Perl might be less popular than some other languages, but it is not true. The best technical guys pick the right tool for the job. I use Perl quite often, but there are lots of tasks for which I will never pick Perl.

Although it is possible to use Perl for big/medium size project, and some people do pick Perl, there are other languages that fit big/medium project much better. You can disagree with me, but you cannot disagree with the fact that I am a tech guy.

It is not so correct to view Perl as the competitor for languages like Java etc. As a matter of fact, Perl is better viewed as a competitor for Python etc.

In reply to Re^2: Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers by pg
in thread Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers by aufflick

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