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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by chipuni on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:01PM (#28933799)
A good measurement of whether a language is "dead" or not is the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Is Perl dead? No, it's still among the top-20 programming languages.

Is Perl dying? Yes; it dropped 8 places among the top-20 programming languages.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by Hjfrf on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:34PM (#28934310)
The list is based on search engine hits for "x programming".

That's probably fine for comparing c to c++ or perl. Searches for "scripting" or "coding" instead are not counted, which probably explains shell scripting below languages 20x less popular if you search by the name alone.

Powershell at ~40, bash not even top 50. You'd assume both are dead from this list.

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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by justinator on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:24PM (#28934994)
Oh so Perl is owned by Schrödinger?
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