The Perl community is horrible, that is the real reason. Criticism about Perl readability and other Perl language meme critics are easily debunked myths. the Perl language semantics and logic is fantastic and easily readable after you LEARN it. The Perl interpreter is fantastic, performs great and have very helpful warnings and strictures.
However the community is untalented, they historically produce very bad code, it all started with Matt's script archive. They do create horrible sites, PerlMonks is a good example, It looks horrible and its usability is horrible. The code posted by PerlMonks users is mostly very bad. CPAN that is often pointed as positive is just a mostly poorly documented repository of very bad code. There are very few usable modules on CPAN.
Perl community has also written some of the worst technical books ever.
Talent attracts talent, that is the reason Perl is dead for any kind of usage and Python is popular.
However the community is untalented, they historically produce very bad code, it all started with Matt's script archive. They do create horrible sites, PerlMonks is a good example, It looks horrible and its usability is horrible. The code posted by PerlMonks users is mostly very bad. CPAN that is often pointed as positive is just a mostly poorly documented repository of very bad code. There are very few usable modules on CPAN.
Perl community has also written some of the worst technical books ever.
Talent attracts talent, that is the reason Perl is dead for any kind of usage and Python is popular.