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No, it was interpreted pretty much correctly, except for the Perl part, which I should clarify.

Perl is definitely dead, I think most people know that. The link was posted to illustrate that other links from that site were painting incorrect picture.

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How is a tool like Perl dead when it's still heavily used on hundreds of thousands of machines all over the world? Is C dead as well? I would say, a tool is dead when it's no longer in wide use. Perl is hardly in that category quite yet.

It's dead because new projects aren't started in Perl unlike C.

Your point stated more generally is that while C is the best tool for a wide set of use cases, for each of the one-time use cases of Perl there is now a better option

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