CPAN

He took a Perl project to Claude Code and asked it to port to Python.

Claude declined and offered to extend the Perl instead, wrote missing CPAN modules on demand.

So the dead language becomes viable again because the agent doesn't care that Perl has no new human contributors.

That's the paradox.

AI might kill the long tail of languages, or it might resurrect them.

If the agent can write idiomatic Perl and generate the missing libraries, then the reason Perl was dying, which is that nobody wanted to write Perl anymore, stops mattering.

And yet, CPAN releases peaked in twenty fourteen and have trended sharply down since.

Perl sat at number twenty-five on TIOB by late twenty twenty-four, its lowest ever.

okay so since um raymond ibrahim is gonna go first um i'll start with him and then we pass on to um jay smith Raymond Ibrahim, for over 20 years, Raymond Ibrahim has been at the fore of researching and publishing on Islamic history and doctrine.

Before being canceled for his condo, he appeared on all major networks, CNN, NPR, PBS, CPAN, Al Jazeera, and was published by New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington Post, Financial Times, Jane's Islamic Affairs, affair analytics and Middle East quarterly, to name a few.

Formerly an Arabic linguist at the Library of Congress, Ebrahim has a guest lecture at many universities, including National Defense Intelligence College and U.S. Army War College, testified before Congress and spoken before various international bodies and parliaments.

author of over 2,000 published essays, his books including Defenders of the West , Sword and Scimitar , Crucified Again , and Al-Qaeda Reader .