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		zahlman 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl's decline was cultural That's why it has stayed dead. But that can't explain how it died. People don't just spontaneously stop hearing about the existence of a programming language in common use.

SoftTalker 3 days ago [–]

How did vbscript die? How did php die? Better alternatives came along and sucked up the oxygen.

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