in reply to Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
If you take a look at these charts from CPAN Testers:
http://stats.cpantesters.org/graphs6.html
...you'll see that the number of CPAN uploads (i.e. reusable open-source programming components) each month has been increasing for years. For a dead language, I'd expect to see those numbers falling, or at least remaining steady.
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