There does not appear to be any downturn in Perl popularity year on as a programming language according to

The TIOBE Community reproduced below.

Position Mar 2008	Position Mar 2007	Programming Language	Ratings Mar 2008	Delta Mar 2007	Status
1	1	Java	20.651%	+2.61%	A
2	2	C	15.593%	-0.04%	A
3	5	(Visual) Basic	10.795%	+2.65%	A
4	4	PHP	10.138%	+0.68%	A
5	3	C++	9.776%	-1.33%	A
6	6	Perl	5.781%	-0.64%	A
7	7	Python	4.593%	+0.70%	A
8	9	C#	4.143%	+0.78%	A
9	12	Delphi	2.697%	+0.94%	A
10	10	Ruby	2.661%	-0.11%	A
11	8	JavaScript	2.462%	-1.02%	A
12	14	D	1.107%	-0.16%	A
13	13	PL/SQL	0.747%	-0.80%	A
14	11	SAS	0.630%	-1.22%	A-
15	18	COBOL	0.615%	-0.03%	A-
16	21	Pascal	0.554%	-0.01%	B
17	17	Ada	0.485%	-0.17%	B
18	16	Lisp/Scheme	0.434%	-0.29%	B
19	19	FoxPro/xBase	0.423%	-0.18%	B
20	25	Lua	0.385%	-0.01%	B

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