The perl community have been searching for the best way to overcome the perception that "perl is dead". (The constant bickering that it isn't the case reminds me of the holy grail http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes?qt0470614 )

They need to focus on "Where perl has been" while it has been out of the limelight because, believe me, perl still rocks for productivity and performance.

Moose has revolutionized the object system (a system that was so flexible that it just gave you the parts and said "go build it")

Perl::Critic has created a baseline which all production scripts should be above.

PSGI and plack have changed the way you build and deploy and perl webapps.

In fact, the perl community and the current stars of CPAN have come so far, and have had so much going on that I have difficulty keeping up with the massive strides they are taking, let alone summarize those changes here.