Well, *Is* Perl Dying?

Please define 'dying' as used in this context.

Are there relatively fewer 'perl programming' threads found by Google? Yes.

Is Perl no longer a useful language? No.

Are there niches where Perl used to be the favored language, but isn't anymore? Yes.

Are there no niches where Perl is the favored language? No.

Just like statistics -- I can come up with a side of the argument that I wish to support, and come up with numbers and references to support it.