... and with most applications these days being written in PHP ..

Citation required.

Will (Perl) ever take over PHP or has that particular battle been lost?

Citation required to back up premise that Perl has 'lost' a particular battle, and that Perl and PHP are even competing in the same areas of endeavour.

I notice this website is exactly the same as it was 2 years ago too, hehe so I guess the web2.0 thing hasn't quite hit these dusty corridors (it's quite refreshing in some ways).

It looks the same, but new content is arriving daily -- this user community is also thriving. There have been a few improvements in the last 2-3 years, but Perlmonks has not been dressed up in Web2.0 finery -- but that's OK, because it's never been about the eye candy, but about the community and the content.

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