[dale_glass]

Unfortunately most of that doesn't really matter for any non-trivial project, because you'll almost unavoidably need a module for something. A lot of the time you'll find out that it's bit rotted 5 years ago, and the bug tracker has a 7 year old issue nobody seems to have read.

It's even worse for anything that interacts with libraries or APIs -- those change over time, and often nobody does the work to repair compatibility.

So I think at this point it's fair to say it's dead. Even if the core language is technically functional, the ecosystem is rotting.

[jart]

Perl doesn't need an ecosystem any more than the Almquist shell does. It's just a nice tool that's omnipresent on UNIX systems. It's definitely going to be useful for shell scripters for a very long time.

[readme]

list of perl modules in cpan sorted by last update time

http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.mtime.html

[forgotmypw17]

My 5 years and counting project diagrees with you.