I don't really get the point of these surveys. All they do is quantify what we already know -- lots of people are using Perl, and most people get paid for that. In theory, if the survey asked what areas people were using Perl in, then grants could be given to shore up modules for the popular areas. But if people want to do that, they will do it anyway... and if nobody wants to do it, only someone very desperate for some spare change will do it, with results that match.

So other than liking to click stuff and look at data, I don't get it. It seems to me that if the Perl community stopped yelling, "no really, we aren't dead", everyone would stop thinking that.