5 programming languages marked for death (Perl, etc.)

It's become a source of amusement over the years to watch just how useless most punditry is, in this field as in every field: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691128715/sociapsych...

I've followed P6 for 14 years, tracked it very closely for the last 2. For those interested, I document some of what's going on at http://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/

perl is not dead, it's a alive an healthy. perl 5.20.0 was released on may 27th, and the 5.20.1 was released on sep 14th.

if you look at the ecosystem it's also alive and healthy, http://stats.cpantesters.org/trends.html#stats6 . so quit spreading fud

Perl clearly isn't dead. It's just not spreading much beyond the Perl community.

And that's a major, major thing.

nah, not really. Perl is in the long game. Watch the devops guys cycling back to perl in a significant way.

VB.net isn't going anywhere. I just had two semesters of it, it's still taught in schools and it's still used. Although I would argue that C# is just better at least one of my teachers disagrees with me.

Rumours about death of Perl and/or Ruby are greatly exaggregated.

Netcraft confirmation or it didn't happen.