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> "Perl was a popular programming language about 30 years ago"

That's inaccurate. Perl was released 30 years ago. It was quite popular by 2000, or about 20 years ago.

That said, something dies when it is no longer useful. Perl is quite useful and still comes bundled up with any modern Linux system.

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And if sometime in the future Perl is no longer included by default, it will be installed "by dependency" just when you install packages like rsnapshot, CSF firewall, etc. and probably a big bunch of tools that nobody would guess are written in Perl (or some tools of the package)

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