Last Perl conference I was at listed Google as one of the sponsors. So apparently, yes.

Perl is *massively* active. The main "problem" with Perl is, unlike, say, PHP, you don't see it in action: A website that makes heavy use of PHP will have lots of .php files in its URLs. A website that runs on Perl will just use good old .html.

If you're looking for Perl by checking for "cgi-bin" then you're a long way out of date with where Perl is these days

You know the F11 key toggles between full-screen mode in every modern browser, right?

If those 18 pixels really mean that much to you..

Yes, it's still very actively developed. Especially if you throw in Moose and Plack.

Modern Perl is a beautiful language

This.

The last thing the world needs is yet more crap code written by people whose only development methodology is to keep screwing with the code until it seems to do what they want.

Perl is both widely used and under very active development. Don't confuse the CGI crap written by Perl novices back in the 90s with modern Perl.

I'd use it.

The single biggest source of problems I've had with Linux over the years has been hardware without open-source drivers. I'd go so far as to say it's the only source of unsolvable problems I've had with Linux.

If you're not a serious gamer, you don't need a card to work at 100% of its potential - 99% of the time all I need mine to do is use about 1% of its power to render a desktop. If the driver's reliable and open-source, why would I care that a different driver would give me a slightly-better FPS on the very rare occasions that it's working flat-out?

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..America's industrial pollution, being the product of democracy, leads to a surfeit of hot air, which will cause the climate to change.

Chinese pollution, made by communists, cancels out the democratic American pollution and so overall nothing happens either way.

'zat it?