[altxwally]

> Perl is very active here in Japan.

Considering the amount of legacy Perl scripts that I have had to rewrite since I got to Japan due to a lack of Perl developers that can mantain them, I'd think that Japan's Galapagos argument does not work so much in this case. I think that it is also losing strength around here.

[bbbbbbbbb]

It does not mean that Perl is not active in Japan though. Many big companies in Japan uses Perl as the language of choice for their websites but indeed,I won't say that it's not loosing some market share though.