Speaking as somebody who does consultancy and commercial support around the perl ecosystem the number of people who completely fail to realise how much revenue it's still generating for how many companies is part depressing, part hilarious.
Then again, Java, PHP etc. programmers seem to have the same experience on a regular basis, and these days the naysayers seem to have come for Rails as well.
Programming is, as ever, a pop culture, and given our tendency towards self deprecatory humour as a community the worst part of the whole thing for us a lot of the time is that 99% of the people criticising/insulting perl are so bad at it.
Then again, Java, PHP etc. programmers seem to have the same experience on a regular basis, and these days the naysayers seem to have come for Rails as well.
Programming is, as ever, a pop culture, and given our tendency towards self deprecatory humour as a community the worst part of the whole thing for us a lot of the time is that 99% of the people criticising/insulting perl are so bad at it.