"Perl Is Not Dead, It Is A Dead End"

Python, Perl and Golang Perl
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According to this article Duck Duck Go uses perl: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026698/inside-duckduckgo-googles-tiniest-fiercest-competitor

And IMDB used to run on perl, I’m not sure whether it still does though.

I do get the impression though that most things that use perl were originally developed quite a few years ago. There don’t seem to be (too m)any new projects I hear about that are developed in perl.

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And IMDB used to run on perl, I’m not sure whether it still does though.

To be fair, IMDB is the oldest still actively updated site on the internet.

Founded in 1989 by participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies, the IMDB was rolled out on the web in late 1993, hosted by the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales.

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DuckDuckGo does indeed run on Perl. Basically a scary not-modern-Perl non-opensource core surrounded by modern-Perl best-practices open-source Perl around it. Gabriel may eventually opensource the core stuff, some day. I get the feeling he was using Perl to play around with stuff so just kept using it.

Probably the company using Perl most obviously today is Booking.com. They are a known large black hole trying to suck up every Perl developer in existence. : P