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Choose a different metric, and the story will change significantly:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20t...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl

There are also anecdotes such as this:

https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=1225020

Perl6 was supposed to help with this. It has yet to do so.

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Nice job. I think these graphs depict Perl's "sphere of influence" in IT with respect to time much better than the original article's depiction.