All you need is HOPE!

在某個部落格上看到這段回應有關Perl已死的論斷，觀點客觀成熟，值得閱讀。

Things have changed a bit in 3 years. Ruby and Rails have made significant progress yet they are no longer at the hype and high of 3 years ago. Rumors/articles/writings about Rails scalability issues have seemingly done some serious damages to its rise.

Python continues to gain some good growth though the graph has started to level out. Meanwhile, Perl has stayed in the background but quietly made some good progress: Catalyst has become a very capable web framework (performance-wise even much more impressive than Rails and Django). Moose, the Object-Oriented framework inspired by Perl 6, has made its way into Perl 5 as a de facto object system. Rakudo, an implementation of Perl 6 on Parrot virtual machine, inches slowly but surely to its 1.0 release. Though not at production level yet, Rakudo offers a nice environment to test out Perl 6. You all should try it out - just to learn Perl 6 and you'll be amazed by it. IMO, one should not give out judgement before giving the subject some exploration.

預測是困難的，下定論也是。
未來並非是個定數，
會因為各種努力與外在的變化，
以及事物本身強弱不定的慣性，
產生可能出乎意料之外的結果。

只有經常針對有興趣的議題
不斷更新最近、正確的資訊
才有可能拼湊出模糊的未來

You never know!

All you need is HOPE!