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More jobs ... (Score:2)
It used to be that the vast majority of feedback to the site was "thanks, it helped us quickly find N qualified candidates and we hired one of them last week" - now most of the feedback is "we can't find anyone; do you have any suggestions for our posting?"
I'm pretty sure the number of happily employed Perl programmers is up
- ask
-- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
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works for me (Score:2)
I reckon so, my current client has grown from 1 perl developer to 4 man team, with 1 head of technology with strong Perl, myself as a contractor and 2 developers new full time perl developers.
My last client grew from 1 php developer and 1 database/perl developer to 1 php/perl developer and 3 (4 before I left) perl developers - in fact while I was there, I was training a new graduate in Perl.
Both clients are doing pretty interesting stuff
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
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Yes, there has certainly been a lot of stability in Perl jobs recently. It's good to be busy, but the difficulty of finding qualified Perl programmers combined with the steep learning curve for the rest carries with it the temptation to develop new projects in other languages and keep the slim Perl staff busy with maintenance of existing code.
That is a dangerous trend, which I observe in my company. I hope many of yo
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My fear is that the pool of well behaving Perl developers is drying out, and companies have to depend on people coming from the Java world with lower standards for code quality.
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And an interesting point regarding the shrinking numbers of well behaved Perl developers. Why do you think that is?
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From the rumors I hear, well-behaved Perl developers aren't willing to work in, for example, London for 30k quid.
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Meaning that it's hard to find Perl people for jobs now; they (we) are all busy.
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do you think the current crop of experienced perl developers battled a steep learning curve, or got hooked because the curve was so shallow and easy to climb?
I haven't had any difficulty in training new perl programmers, the excellent Learning Perl and Perl Cookbook can get a complete newbie up to speed and productive quite quickly with only minimal review and supervision.
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;