[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Adam Pisoni]

I don't know.   Its pretty easy to find Java guys right now.  Good  
ones too.  At least in LA, there is definitely a difference in the  
availability of qualified Perl engineers as opposed to C, Java,  
PHP..  Not sure about Python or Ruby.

Thanks,
Adam

On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
>
>> In terms of market forces, I think that there are a number of  
>> issues worth
>> discussing. I hope that the local demand for perl engineers is  
>> enough to
>> cause the much needed market shift (i.e., more people in the  
>> States learning
>> perl on a very deep level). I'm concerned that other forces may  
>> counteract
>> this adjustment including the fact that schools in the States push  
>> Java,
>> python is becoming more popular as a general purpose scripting  
>> language, and
>> other languages and frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails) are taking up  
>> the "I
>> want to build a simple web site" position.
>
> Surely the adjustment will only happen if forces in favour of Perl  
> increase
> relative to other languages? Basically Perl has to be perceived as  
> some
> combination of "more fun" and "more lucrative" than the average of the
> competition. And right now there's a general recruiting suck across  
> the
> field, isn't there, rather than a particularly hard vacuum in the  
> area of
> Perl?
>
> Nicholas Clark
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