CPAN Growth
prog was recently complaining about hearing that old saw "Perl's just not popular any more". This got me curious about what CPAN growth looked like these days. It's just one measure of the languages success, but it seems like a pretty good one. I remember having seen this while ago (also this)... quite a while ago as it turns out.
So I went and did something similar, though without machine or ftp access I had to web scrape rather then just using ls-lR output. The results are here.