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by davidu 5369 days ago
Perl used to be "too big, too popular" and writing Perl apps that plugged into mod_perl was what every company was trying to hire for.

PHP will likely be replaced, but not for a long time and it will take time. And there are still a lot of perl hackers out there too, none suffering (aside from having to use perl).