[oblio]

The Iron fans are doing a bit of harm but that Perl zealotism is one of the things that made it wildly popular in its day. And unlike Perl, Iron development is structured, not "organic" a la Larry Wall/Perl.

I'm not an Iron zealot but I do believe that there rarely is such a thing as bad publicity :)

[jacquesm]

Seen much perl lately?

[oblio]

Yes, surely the downfall of Perl was caused by its zealous fans, not by the apparition of other programming languages that were either easier to use (PHP), more readable (Python) or had more attractive frameworks (Ruby) :)