[DFW.pm] Should I take a Perl job?

Shaun Dawson scdawson at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 17:23:58 PDT 2011


I just recently got an email from a company in China needing a Senior level
Perl coder with Moose experience.  That seems relevant to this discussion.
It's a full-time position allowing the applicant to live anywhere in the
world.

Shaun

2011/9/8 S Z <zappepcs at gmail.com>

> I've heard that Google rumor too.There are many more perl jobs advertised
> now than there were 2+ years ago. There are many companies who saw Perl as
> 'glue code' and now are entrenched in Perl based backend operations. They
> either hire perl coders or someone to port everything to something else -
> never a good choice to port everything to something else. Then there are
> companies who are actively supporting the perl ecosphere and new
> developments which are not being equaled (arguable) by other languages. In
> some cases it feels like Perl is catching up but with such a low bar to
> entry there are many things that could tip the scale. wxPerl, Moose(x),
> Catalyst etc. are poised to make a large value adds in the marketplace. Perl
> has a low bar to entry and adding MVC framework, easier GUI coding, and
> generally more coherent best practices; I don't see it going anywhere
> anytime soon.
>
> It might not be what you want on your resume but I don't think it will hurt
> your resume. I see companies now looking hard enough that they are willing
> to accept remote staff to get perl resources. I'm happy with Perl on my
> resume.
>
>
> 2011/9/8 Brand Hilton <brandhilton at gmail.com>
>
>> Perl CGI scripts, I'm afraid.  I'm talking to them some more tomorrow, and
>> I'll get an idea of how interested they are in updating their technology.
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/8 S Z <zappepcs at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Brand,
>>> Is the job working on any of the newer Perl developments? (Catalyst,
>>> Rakudo, Plack, Moose etc)
>>> There are a lot of jobs with mostly Java/C/etc with some Perl, and some
>>> jobs with mostly Perl with some Java/C/etc.
>>> It may not be exciting to refactor some old perl scripts, but working
>>> with newer developments is fairly cool. Perhaps you might want to look at it
>>> from that perspective as well?
>>>
>>> SZ
>>>
>>>  2011/9/8 Brand Hilton <brandhilton at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> I used to do a lot of Perl, but I've been doing mostly Java for a few
>>>> years now.  I now have an opportunity to do Perl again.  I love Perl, but
>>>> I'm concerned that maybe it's not a good career move.  Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brand
>>>>
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