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I played around with Perl when I was still in school, almost 20 years ago. Even then it was pretty legacy. I remember fixing a bug in a Perl script during an internship, because I was literally the only person in the whole department who could understand Perl code. I suppose it was used for sysadmin and web scripting but has since been replaced by PHP, Javascript and Python. I wouldn't bet any money on Perl being relevant in the future.
It was used for everything in the late 90's. I get nostalgic when I see a bit of perl on the web these days, but I sure don't miss it.