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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by kentnl on Sunday September 05, 2010 @06:30AM (#1664313)
Hey, wasn't that the year the economy started to go south? .... Obviously, people stopped employing people in Perl, and the economy took a steep dive because of it!. Use Perl! Save the economy!.

( nb. for people with no sense of humour, this was a stab at people who don't understand that correlation != causation )

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by pchristensen on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @03:12PM (#1669786)
Calm down guys, I counted the years wrong - I thought the drop was taking place in 2006-7, when Rails was growing quickly. Also, it was a guess, which was why I used a "?"
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