Dear Alexander,

Effectively Perl is no more as wide used as was some years ago. Thanks for point this to my attention. Even if Perl is used by almost all Linux and BSD distros, even if it is one of more used language to administer crucial services over the Net, even if it is updated frequently and new major realeases of the language had spread reguraly in lasts years, even if the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 130,991 Perl modules in 29,153 distributions, written by 11,303 authors, Perl now suffers the competition of some new launguages that, wisely, Vim choosed to support.

Many IT professionals, as me, had bring Vim to popularity as 'the programmer editor' but we used Vim because of it's flexibility and wide purpose usability. Abandon Perl support force us to consider other options to continue administering a mess of petabytes of Perl code that is running in this moment all over the world.

Follow the trend of thinks, the evolution of the programming field, is obviously a plus of Vim and for Vim's users, but break the compatibilty with a such historical, but still very alive and active language as Perl may be not so wise.

Viewing thinks by the point of a programmer please try "search.cpan.org" and search on "vim" I see about 270 scripts...

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