One unexpected effect of Cpedia aggregating articles about things to build pages is that the page for the software I write and sell contains both it's description and links to where to get a cracked version :(
This is the thing about SO that really works. You almost always get a good answer within hours of asking any programming question (that's been my experience anyway).
I find the similarity between the style of jargon in that job posting and the jargon used by the Church of Scientology ('sea-org', 'OT', 'out-ethics' etc.) a little creepy.
Surely the flabbergasting thing is not whether this proves or disproves GW but that scientists are allowed to flat-out refuse to release the raw data they used to generate results.
I don't think Perl lost "It", but it did lose the Web.
There's tons of Unix back-end glue written in Perl, and I imagine tons still being written right now, but as a language for web-apps it just didn't get critical mass for some reason.
I think krf's comment might be part of the answer. I've had to do some mod_perl recently and the documentation is very patchy even now. I shudder to think what it might have been like 5 years ago.