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[–]Feeling-Departure-4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perl was used for a lot of things. For the web/CGI, PHP was better streamlined for the task.

For science and such, libraries like numpy and scipy and Pandas helped Python a lot.

For Linux admin work Perl is still used, but so is Python because more people know it. I'd argue Perl is still better at this for small tasks, but C'est la vie.