Perl: still the leading dynamic language for Open Source

British online technical newspaper The Register has this very interesting article which shows statistics about new open source projects born in 2008. Numbers are provided by license tracker Black Duck Software

C is (unsurprisingly) first: 47% of open source projects born in 2008 use it.

What's most interesting, however, is that Perl is the first of the dynamic languages (excluding client-side scripting ones, i.e. JavaScript): 18% of new projects chose it (PHP is stuck at 11% and Ruby at 6%). Anybody who was saying Perl was obsolete now has his answer.