Hey, wasn't that the year the economy started to go south? ....
Obviously, people stopped employing people in Perl, and the economy took a steep dive because of it!. Use Perl! Save the economy!.
( nb. for people with no sense of humour, this was a stab at people who don't understand that correlation != causation )
Calm down guys, I counted the years wrong - I thought the drop was taking place in 2006-7, when Rails was growing quickly. Also, it was a guess, which was why I used a "?"