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[David Damerell]

On Monday, 9 Feb 2009, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>At the start of the year Jonathan Corbett opined in the Linux Weekly
>News that this year was make or break for Perl and it was looking more
>break than make.

I think that may be more filling space than anything else. Perl isn't
going to suddenly amaze everyone this year and it isn't going to go
away. 

Think how silly it would be if you read the same thing about Emacs.

Some people like it, some people don't, everyone with any real
experience in the field knows it's out there, it's a bit
idiosyncratic, it does some jobs very well, it can be a bit
frustrating, there are plenty of other text editors/scripting
languages, some of them look pretty good, fans of Emacs/Perl will tell
you how theirs is different and much better and does a million extra
things, there might be a major new version soon but don't hold your
breath...

... but it's never going to be "make or break" after this long.
Neither complete obscurity nor rampant popularity will happen except
possibly after many more years of gradually drifting one way or the
other.

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