[Bangalore-pm] The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers

[Kiran Kumar]

I have been in both markets and in my opinion, If we look at it from Indian
market perspective it is much worse than the situation in North America.
The experienced developers seem to have moved to different languages and
the new perl programmers are non existent and with python getting
introduced into the school curriculum things will get worse if there are no
efforts to improve this situation here.

The good news is that there seem to be a good user base of perl who are
learning/using it for different purposes and the problem seems to be that
they do not have a local community to engage with and slowly fade away, if
we can strengthen the local mongers group here and over time show them the
power of perl and help them become better programmers then they will start
creating things which helps in bootstrapping other perl programmers.

Over the past year I have been going to a lot of startup events, training
programmers to work with me and meeting different entrepreneurs, angels,
VC's while I am bootstrapping my company.

 I see a big gap in the perl community with regards to the startup culture
here and I have some plans on mentoring guys who are mostly into
freelancing to become entrepreneurs which in turn will help create more
perl programmers.  If you guys are interested in this feel free to get in
touch and discuss your thoughts on how we can go about this .




On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Chankey Pathak <chankey007 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just read
> http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-part-1-the-data/ and
> felt sad. I would like to recommend this article to everyone.
>
> "*Regardless, after seeing these numbers I’m convinced that the
> practitioners of Perl are aging and not enough junior developers are being
> created to sustain the language as a going concern in the development
> world. What’s worse, Perl does not appear to have any sort of succession
> plan. It’s turning into the Shakers of the software development world:
> attempting to rely on conversion for proliferation rather than on
> reproduction.*"
>
> Brasseur gave some nice suggestions in the end which IMO should be
> followed by a Perl lover:
> http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-part-3-the-suggestions/
>
> Quoting from his article:
>
> *Make cool shit. Talk about it. Talk about it A LOT.* What little
> positive image Perl retains in these modern times is primarily limited to
> making sysadmin/dev ops lives easier. While this is a worthy and admirable
> accomplishment, it’s not going to turn any heads. People will (and do) not
> want to learn a language with a stodgy reputation. The best way to shed
> that reputation is to use the language to develop cutting edge tools and
> services, then to shout it from the mountain tops.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Chankey Pathak
>
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