[tus88]

It's interesting. I started Perl in around 2005, and moved entirely to Python in 2014, exactly when it reached it's peak and started to decline. Seems I wasn't the only one.

[INTPenis]

Pretty much same story for me. I started dabbling in Python 2013 and the move was final in 2014 when I had started using Ansible full time.

Before that I was a huge Perl fan. I even ran a localized version of perl.cctld in my country. With documentation in our local language.

[latchkey]

Now I feel old, I started with Perl 4 around 1992-1993. There wasn't even a CGI query args parser library yet, you had to roll your own.

[tus88]

What kind of web server would even be calling Perl CGI scripts in 1992? I thought it was all bulletin boards back then. Personally I just got my first PC and was learning to play Commander Keen in 1992 ;-)

[latchkey]

I started with perl in 1992, ncsa httpd came out in 1993, which was the first release of CGI.

I ported EBBS/BBS to A/UX and ran one for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd

https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS (my name is in the credits)

[blihp]

Nah, you're still a youngster. Got Perl 1 via Usenet in 1988 when there wasn't even a web yet.

[unpixer]

My first exposure to Perl pattern-matching was a magic regex for parsing CGI input handed down to me by a more experienced coder. "Don't ask how this works."

[latchkey]

"Write once, read never" is another good Perl quote someone told me once.