On the future of Perl 5

Here's an interesting discussion from the "Journal of Ovid" on the usePerl site on the (apparently) declining popularity of the Perl language. "When 5.12 hits we have a chance of winning programmers back, but the language has so much baggage -- both technical and social -- that I don't think it will win anyone back. We're losing because we didn't need marketing when we were the duct tape of the internet and now we sneer at it. We're losing because we rested on our laurels and scoffed at the up-and-comers. We're losing because older programmers ignored the concerns of the younger programmers. We're losing for the same reason that there are still people who object to images on Web pages, much less Flash and Javascript."

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