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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/8 Brand Hilton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brandhilton@gmail.com">brandhilton@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/9/8 S Z <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zappepcs@gmail.com" target="_self">zappepcs@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Brand,<br>Is the job working on any of the newer Perl developments? (Catalyst, Rakudo, Plack, Moose etc)<br>
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.<br>
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?<br><font color="#888888"><br>SZ<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>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?<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>Brand<br>
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