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Re:The Future of Perl by Macha on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:25AM (#26566259)
Wasn't Perl 6 itself a reaction to the fact that a lot of developers already leaving for PHP in the web space and Python in the "I need something like a shell script, but need/want a real programming language".
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Re:The Future of Perl by bmn__ on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:01AM (#26567279)
No. http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/happy-10th-anniversary-p...
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Re:The Future of Perl by raiph on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:53PM (#26571464)
As Jon Orwant (supposedly) said in 2000 (quoting from the article you linked):

> we are fucked unless we can come up with something that will excite the community, because everyone's getting bored and going off and doing other things

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Re:The Future of Perl by thatwasunusual on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:45AM (#26566435)
I honestly don't remember. Nor do I care anymore. :)
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