Out of interest which bits of the Beeb are still Perl? Are l.pm-ers still there? And where does http://news.bbc.co.uk fit into everything these days?We've poached a couple of people from the beeb here, they still have a LOT of perl developers though, pretty sure there are still plenty of people on the list still there or have contracted there recently.
I can wave my hand as an ex-Perl person who hasn't been allowed near any code for, hmm, almost exactly 2 years now. :-(