Thank you, GrandFather, for bringing up these fantastic numbers, I've been wondering myself but didn't have a clue how to find it out. I'm really glad to see it.
I (kind of) left Perl too (due to unfortunate situation), once, for about three years. And in that period, I did PHP (the programmers I led couldn't be upgraded higher) for one or two projects, but I still used Perl for automating some tasks. I was involved in a Java project, but fortunately, wasn't forced to code in it. My roles in this project were system designer and QA.
When I managed to get myself back, I was suprised to see a lot of things had happened, in the Internet and the Perland. It's all exciting. But as far as I can see, nothing really new that Perl can't handle. Most of bad things people talk about Perl are not far from myths to spread FUD, just like this one. Are you going to contribute to the mud? Some Perler did the best to clean up the mess other person threw. So the only thing Perl is lost is that the number of people that say offensive things about other languages.
Update: (21-06-2007) Fixed link to the myths. Thanks, blazar :-)
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