On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:56:33 -0700, "Stuart Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 05:16 -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > That's why these days you mostly see sysadmins and other not-really- > > experienced developers using Perl. Or, professionals using it as an > > awk/sed replacement, which is what it was designed for and which it's > > quite good at. > > So that 60k - 100k developer position recently posting to Plug was > looking for "sysadmins and other not-really-experienced developers using > Perl"? Sign me up!
Some companies have to maintain perl codebases. Poor bastards. If it was for new development, well, gee, surely it couldn't be a case of a hiring manager not knowing what he's doing! That never happens! > I submit that you don't know what you're talking about. We've been down this road before, haven't we? I think it ended up with me showing that I'm a lot more experienced in perl than you are in about anything, and you getting your feelings hurt. -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
