Death by a thousand cuts...PHP cut it off at the knees because it was trivialy easy to do web apps on a shared host; Perl hosting was far harder. Ruby came on the scene, and stepped in as a spiritual successor to Perl. Perl 6's infinite development cycle sapped the life out of the community. All of which led to fewer modules being added to, or updated on, CPAN. Fewer fresh modules drove more use to other languages that did have the fresh modules
I.e. a really nasty downward spiral that leaves perl occupying the same space as COBOL and FORTAN - a language used in massive legacy systems, but rarely used in new systems unless implemented by ancient wizards.
One the upside, pretty soon Perl wizards will be able to charge the same rates as COBOL & FORTRAN wizards...
I.e. a really nasty downward spiral that leaves perl occupying the same space as COBOL and FORTAN - a language used in massive legacy systems, but rarely used in new systems unless implemented by ancient wizards.
One the upside, pretty soon Perl wizards will be able to charge the same rates as COBOL & FORTRAN wizards...