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> "I expect this trend will continue, as I strongly doubt that many new green field projects would today choose Perl as the principal development language."

Maybe but checking regularly the CPAN recent updates ( http://search.cpan.org/recent/ ), it seems that Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries.

At the end, large or medium sized projects are using different programming languages for different tasks and there is no such thing as the "principal development language". Diversity is great...

> Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries.

If Parrot comes to full fruition, CPAN should be available to (at least) both Ruby and Python about as easily as it's available to Perl.

If Parrot comes to full fruition.

You can already run some CPAN modules in Rakudo (Perl 6) on Parrot. See Blizkost (which comes with Rakudo): https://github.com/jnthn/blizkost

Here is an example which works (using CGI module from perl5/CPAN):

    use v6;
    use CGI:from<perl5>;

    my $q = CGI.new;
    print $q.header,
        $q.start_html('Hello World'),
        $q.h1('Hello World'),
        $q.end_html;

PS. re: some CPAN modules - Only "well behaved" Perl5 modules will work. I've tried four and got one to work. However this is a good start methinks!

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