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Perl's decline was cultural


decline was cultural 2025-11-20 According to the Discourse, somebody killed perl There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts.

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