Comment by vijayboyapati

The thing I find interesting about this article is the brief discussion about the death of PERL. In particular the comment about the inability to find senior developers in PERL. This is a sad development for those of us who really love programming in PERL, but I think eventually one must recognize that a language is fading, however slowly, into obsolescence. Apart from Crowdtilt I don't know any other successful startups or major companies that rely on PERL. And if one wants all the benefits of a network effect of developers, libraries and technical support, it seems today a backend developer really needs to shift his or her focus to Python, Ruby or (bleagh) PHP