in reply to Perl is dead
This has been discussed to death. Let me just say, if you think the Perl community is going away any time soon, you are not paying very much attention. What else do we really need to keep a language alive?
Update: How hard did you try to find previous discussions about this? Not very hard, I would guess. A simple super search for titles of "dying" reveals the following fairly-recent threads:
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