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

[Juan J. Natera]

> 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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