[San-Diego-pm] Is Perl finally dying? [was: Seen this?]

[menolly at mib.org]

Hm, who's "we"?  I don't see very many Perl listings on Craigslist at the moment, and frankly, it's not the first place I think
to look for jobs these days.

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Lloyd Evetts wrote:

> Even 10 years ago when I was first hiring Perl developers it wasn't easy.  These days in San Diego I find it hard to find any
> qualified developers, but a Perl developer is harder to find than PHP.  Junior and intermediate the only Perl I've come across
> are people working for Yahoo in their QA, but at the more senior level they are out there.  We post positions on Craigslist
> every month for Perl even if we don't have an immediate need just in case the right person comes up.
> Nice to see some life in this mailing list!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>       I agree that most PERL developers are older.
> 
> I thought that the problem was a shortage of PERL jobs not a shortage of PERL programmers.  I like PERL but one of the
> reason that I do not work with it, is the lack of PERL jobs when looking for employment. 
> 
> I want to see what PERL 6 brings.
> 
> Nestor
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Juan J. Natera <naterajj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>             As for the graphs showing the age of Perlers based on YAPC attendance,
>             that is a very dubious proposition at best. Attending a conference costs
>             money, a lot of it. Who will pay for Joe the junior dev to attend just
>             because they could? Yeah, um. Better let's send Jack the senior dev over
>             there, maybe he'll pick up some cool idea that'd benefit the whole team,
>             and if not he'd just have a good time with the old buddies.
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's why Perl Monger meetings are full of youngsters, because they can afford local meetings. right?
> Except the avg age of attendees to PM meetings is IME closer to the YAPC numbers.
> 
> Finding Perl developers is a problem, as will tell you anybody that is trying to get them.
> 
> Juan
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