Hacker News Reader

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.