[nameiscubanpete]

I think perls niche is sort of it's downfall. For example, I used to work at a company with 70% C, 25% shell script, and 5% perl. Any time I ran into a perl script I had to switch my brain into Perl mode, with the understanding that what I was working on would be just as good or better in C or shell. I had nothing against Perl as a language, but always enjoyed exorcising a perl script from the codebase.