To add my five cents, the thing that hurts me the most is that Perl is
not an accepted language when it comes to the differnet new platforms.
Our work has adopted Drupal as a CMS and it's written in PHP. It would
be awesome if it was written in Perl, but as someone else posted in this
thread,
This might be a cool thing to add to CPAN in the form of a Tip Jar.
People/Companies could donate money through there and CPAN could also
keep track of donations as a form of popularity. Authors could also
tithe or mark some percentage to donate to the Perl Foundation.
I had looked at doing
