Sorry to say bud, but you need to understand your statistical tools before you try to use them. That graph shows the comparison to THE ENTIRE INTERNET, as far as Google sees it. It does not show a graph of the absolute number of searches.

Want to know what Perl is losing out to?

Porn: http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&#...

> Anything really worth having from perl6 is also going to get pulled into python, ruby, and hell, even lua

Yeah? Tell me when any of those get proper Roles that can measure up to Moose::Role. :)