While all of that is true there is an irrational hostility toward Perl that sometimes makes people choose other options even when Perl is the best and easiest for a given task.
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Yes Bod, I noticed your curious phenomenon while working among programmers hired primarily for C++.
For years, one chap kept telling everyone how much he loved Python and hated Perl ... until our coding
standards were finally updated to permit Python scripts to be written, in addition to Perl.
After recently learning Python myself, I eagerly joined the code review of our Python lover's new script to see what I could learn ...
and was flabbergasted to find myself pointing out embarrassing blunders in his code! :) ...
you see, it turned out he "loved" Python and "hated" Perl based mostly on hearsay, not personal experience.
He'd never written a Perl script in his life and his Python skills were mediocre.
BTW, Stroustrup noticed similar bigotry towards C++: "twice as many people claimed to hate C++ as had ever written even a single small C++ program".
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Maybe not a lot of project work, but there's Perl in odd places
Of course. I don't use Perl on the $applications (or should I say @applications) I'm working on; they're in C#, C++, Java. But I still use perl a lot, for crafting my own tools and one-off data munging jobs, etc.
My point is, if "Google considers Perl a useful skill", it's not (I guess) because they have Perl projects they need programmers for. But ICBW, IOA. ;-)
they may also be using Perl for portable scripts
I am very skeptical.
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> IOA. ;-)
- IOA Independent Olympic Athlete
- IOA Islands of Adventure (Universal Studios theme park)
- IOA International Oversight Advisory (fictional, TV series Stargate)
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update
IOW?
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