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A good measurement of whether a language is "dead" or not is the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Is Perl dead? No, it's still among the top-20 programming languages.

Is Perl dying? Yes; it dropped 8 places among the top-20 programming languages.

The list is based on search engine hits for "x programming".

That's probably fine for comparing c to c++ or perl. Searches for "scripting" or "coding" instead are not counted, which probably explains shell scripting below languages 20x less popular if you search by the name alone.

Powershell at ~40, bash not even top 50. You'd assume both are dead from this list.

Oh so Perl is owned by Schrödinger?

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