Personally I am looking forward to new ecosystems supporting the Perl
community. Efforts like swish-e, kinosearch, (SDK for) Asterix are good
examples. Remember that Perl - like any other product - needs to
constantly renew itself before it is irreversibly outdated.
Warnings signs will be what
Exactly, MS aint stupid. Perl on Windows via ActiveState is stable and
relatively straightforward and of course powerful. Perl aint going
nowhere. The need for a "scripting language" will never go away. Large
applications will always need "bridge" programs etc. Additionally, many
companies are