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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by nrdvana on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:27AM (#28940260)
I like your analogy. But the more accurate statement is that perl has a fraction as many cows as it once had, but still more cows than other not-dead languages. It still gets more daily uploads to CPAN than Haskell gets to hackage.haskell.org packages, for instance.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by munificent on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:45PM (#28948197)
> still more cows than other not-dead languages.

It may still have a lot of cows, but it clearly doesn't have many calves and that's the statistic that speaks to the eventual fate of the language.

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