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Perl was obsolete like 10 years ago.

15 is pushing it.

Perl 6 never caught on.

And I should have written "obsolete" in quotes, because it's basically very idiomatic sloppy python and no one is saying python is obsolete.

Démodé is a better description.

I thought it was more that python was basically perl with the fun bits removed.

Or to put it another way: python helps you think more like the computer does. Perl helps the computer think more like you do.

Perl was a beautiful name and sounded like "Pearl". Perl 6 is named "Raku" which I find substantially worse naming.

I think those of us drawn to Perl by its beautiful name (and potentially-art syntax...) have long since migrated to Ruby, for better or for worse.