On 21 Sep 2009, at 14:22, Raphael Mankin wrote:
Well, I've been bumming about contracting for over 30 years, and the
market seems to be picking up a bit. There are more jobs about and
rates
are also up.
Perl is in a funny state. On the one hand, people are saying that Perl
is dead, everything has gone to Python or Java or ... OTOH managers
that
I have spoken to say that it is extremely difficult to find half way
decent Perl programmers. They eal problem is to get through the door
in
the first place. the pre-selection at the job agencies bears no
relation
to either skills or requirements.
Indeed. Maybe I should pimp myself out as a Perl recruitment
consultant :)
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Andy Armstrong, Hexten