[AMerrit]

This is exactly it for me. Perl just seemed to be stuck in a stasis with the whole Perl6 mess for over ages while the world moved on. I still maintain some perl scripts and it's great for small tasks, but by the time they got everything sorted out no one under 30 knows perl at all anymore as it seemed like a dead end.

[emilper]

"while the world moved on"

yet the world still does not have half the features Perl 5 already had for 20 years :)

... from scoping to support for every major programming paradigm

[cutler]

Much as I like Perl I'm not sure I'd agree with you. What does Perl have that Ruby doesn't?

[petre]

Sigils and dereferencing /s