I don't have a negative output on Perl, its just that I wonder if its still worth learning because of the small community everyone talks about.
Perl's installed almost everywhere, used almost everywhere, and has the biggest repository of free and freely redistributable libraries known to mankind in the CPAN.
Language hipsters who've flocked from Ruby to Erlang to Clojure to Node.js may not yak about it as much as they do their new shiny, but don't confuse that for widespread use.