Hacker News | In defense of Perl.: "I love Perl, but its essential problem at this point is that it's lost momentum.
No, that's just false. In the last year, we've gotten a new major release of Perl, with many, many new features. (See the perl510delta man page for details.) On the CPAN, we've seen 1000s of new libraries released. We have a new object system, called Moose, which is probably one of the best object systems of any language. The Perl conferences have been seeing record attendance.
Basically, Perl is stronger than ever. We just spend our time programming instead of talking about ourselves incessantly, declaring other languages dead, winning awards for being 'the most attractive hacker', or covering up security holes."
