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It's definitely an end of an era.

Some other telling factors.

The level of activity/projects in perl compared to python.

http://twimgs.com/ddj/images/article/2014/0114/Tiobe1.gif

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-rise-and-fall-of-languages-in...

Or the fact that perl isn't even relevant enough to be part of a comparison of major script-like languages.

https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/growth...

But the most telling part is the lack of perl vs python flamewars. Remember those? Even the most ardent perl fan has conceded that python won.

In the immortal words of TS Eliot, "this is the way perl ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper".

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Amazing how, a decade or more after the python-perl skirmishes, some still ... still ... cannot give up their attacks on perl, using the mask of accounts created in the last day.

Perl is still alive, well, and growing. It's not the currently cool language d'jour like qw(Scala go F# rust ...). But people are shipping code with it, using it successfully for what it does best.

Haters gonna hate, and one should generally avoid feeding the several hour old trolls. Their trolling notwithstanding, rumors of perl's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

> qw(Scala go F# rust ...)

I see what you did there... I like it.

> Amazing how, a decade or more after the python-perl skirmishes, some still ... still ... cannot give up their attacks on perl, using the mask of accounts created in the last day.

I'm a fan of perl. I'm old school. I like C, perl, etc. I wasn't attacking perl. Just pointing out REALITY.

> Haters gonna hate, and one should generally avoid feeding the several hour old trolls. Their trolling notwithstanding, rumors of perl's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm a troll because I pointed out facts?

Listen, nobody wants perl to succeed more than me. Stop calling people trolls just because you are upset about what has happened to perl.

I think the troll accusation might have been a bit overboard, but it's clear you're making some odd leaps in your assertions.

First, this submission is about the end of one person't handling of cpan search, not the end of CPAN, or the end of Perl. It's the change of the guard, from a lone person to a group. That doesn't exactly scream the end of something or insignificance.

Second, the comment you responded to was trying to make a point about the maintenance of old Perl. You didn't address that at all, and instead used it to make an alternate point entirely.

Really, it sort of came across like hijacking a thread to grind and axe. The problem is less the argument, and more the presentation. If you had instead presented an opinion in a bit softer manner, and asked how people thought, you might have gotten some useful responses and good discussion. Instead you made an assertion about the end of the subject of discussion, and called it defeated. It's not hard to see how some might interpreted that as an attack on the subject of their livelihood, given the general audience you could expect. At best it was tone-deaf.

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