Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Octavian Râsnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: ...and in most parts of the >> world it is hard to find competent perl programmers. > > ...The job > listings for Perl are strong. They're huge compared to those for > Ruby. Of course Java is massively more popular than either of them, > but that doesn't make the perl market small.
I wouldn't use the word 'most', but here in Southeast Asia it's a real challenge to find a Perl developer with significant experience in Perl/ modperl. Those who do use it as a minor scripting tool in their unix administration. There are still jobs requiring Perl of course, but it's usually in the context of having Perl as a secondary proficiency, with Java/ .NET as the primary. We have a real problem getting the average freshie to appreciate the beauty of dynamic languages. Sorry guys.
