[jimfuller2014]

Perl did win, for a period of time .. expecting an interpreted language to dominate for multiple decades is unrealistic, especially with hardware advances that occur over time.

while I don't do anything with it today, I do know Perl/6 would be in contention for my 'deserted island' language of choice.

yet another dph

[jerf]

I have to agree; if Perl didn't "win", then who did?

Python? Very popular. Solid language. Probably at some point more adopted than Perl, but not so much so that I can say it "won", partially because of how this list goes on.

Ruby? Same.

PHP? Maybe in the web space but not in general.

Javascript? Even in light of Node, this is still a marginal language out of the browser, especially considered over the past 15 years.

Lua? No.

Perl may not have "won" but it has hardly "lost", and now IMHO the sun is just beginning to set on this entire catagory of 1990s-style dynamic scripting language and there probably will be no further "winner" in this space.