Perl Community In Decline: Still Hope For The Language
Perl's decline in popularity is evident, but there are still people working on it, uploading libraries to CPAN and writing about it.
Originally published at Perl Weekly 695 Hi, A month from now Randal Schwartz is going to give a presentation with the title "Half My Life with Perl". I tried to come up with a clever title for this issue of the newsletter that would reflect that title and I had to realize that I have been using Perl also for half of my life. It is probably similar for quite a lot of people in the hard-core of the Perl communities. Many have moved on to other languages. Some of those still have a nostalgic feeling for their 'first love' in the 'good old days'. It is sad to see the decline in popularity. I remem...