Taking a lesson from the corporate world if a competitor comes up with a new technological innovation and your later then 3-6 months in coming up with your version, forget about retaking market share. Even if its not perfect or buggy, corporations will try to get something out before they lose their customers completely. I would argue that in terms of innovation there is very little gap between Apache::ASP (My preference over Mason) and PHP but no one knows what it is and no one cares because all the interest went to other languages.

Per the graphs Perl has been losing marker share since 2002 and like global warming I think its to late for Perl.

Many say that Perl6 is going to be Perls saviour but what is it that the masses will use it for? To me its a science project that only the elite can fulling utilize. Unlike Perl scientist most of us who use Perl live in the real world and our jobs demand productivity for the quickest turn around time which is what languages that support web / web applications give us. I think that Parrot will only be of interest to the Perl elite as has been the case with every other innovation in Perl and not for the masses. I do hope I'm wrong.