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Re^3: Google considers Perl a useful skill

by jordanh (Chaplain)
on Oct 12, 2022 at 21:12 UTC ( [id://11147378]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Google considers Perl a useful skill
in thread Google considers Perl a useful skill

I'm not so sure about that. Maybe not a lot of project work, but there's Perl in odd places on the Internet. They probably don't want to hire contractors just to figure out what's going on. Also, they may also be using Perl for portable scripts they need to distribute to a number of different environments. Really, none of those other languages are BETTER than Perl for that and Perl is highly likely to be already installed in a lot of Linux and Unix systems.

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Re^4: Google considers Perl a useful skill
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 12, 2022 at 21:35 UTC

    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.

      there is an irrational hostility toward Perl

      From my very limited experience, it seems to mostly come from people who are extolling Python

        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".

Re^4: Google considers Perl a useful skill
by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 13, 2022 at 21:25 UTC
    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.

      > IOA. ;-)

      • IOA Independent Olympic Athlete
      • IOA Islands of Adventure (Universal Studios theme park)
      • IOA International Oversight Advisory (fictional, TV series Stargate)
      ?

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      update

      IOW?

        I Could Be Wrong, I Often Am :-D

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