I'm trying to do some Perl Evangelism in our company, to promote Perl in whatever way possible. However I haven't kept in touch all areas of Perl world in the Past. As I understand this is a vast area of programming world.

Can some body write an elaborate summary of what has been happening in the Perl world in the past 2-3 years.Our main accomplishments, the direction in which we are heading and some thing about Perl 6?

Please don't start a fight(Especially on Perl 6). If we could collate all the information in this thread, it will be of great help to people like me and also bloggers. We can get as much data points to sell Perl.

In reply to Summary of Perl in the past 2-3 years by Anonymous Monk

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