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Perl's decline was cultural
There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. My take: it was mostly baked into the culture. Perl grew…
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Programming LanguagesHistory & Retro Computing2025
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2025 | Perl's decline was cultural by todsacerdoti | 395 | 453 |
