Re^3: Google considers Perl a useful skill

I can't imagine a firm that size having zero Perl programmers.

But the truth is that good programmers are so rare, that job descriptions tend to "fish" everywhere, in the hope to easily train the haul to swim in a new pond.

One of my last clients was even actively looking for PHP coders to be able to train them on Perl.

I dare saying a versatile Perl programmer can easily adapt, because of its TIMTOWTDI tendency to cover a maximum of paradigms, he has seen most concepts already.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^4: Google considers Perl a useful skill by stevieb (Canon) on Oct 12, 2022 at 16:46 UTC
But the truth is that good programmers are so rare, that job descriptions tend to "fish" everywhere ...and, of course, all the best programmers are in their heart and core, Perl programmers ;)	[reply]
Re^4: Google considers Perl a useful skill by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 14, 2022 at 08:30 UTC
> I can't imagine a firm that size having zero Perl programmers. I fear it's not a matter of size but age. I started working in a relatively new company (started in 2009) that has a few thousand employees and we have less than 20 perl scripts in the whole codebase. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Google considers Perl a useful skill by LanX (Saint) on Oct 14, 2022 at 14:19 UTC
Still, it's not a company attempting to rule all markets. There are Unix/Linux flavors and products like Git partly depending on Perl, you need a minimum expertise in house. Of course this also applies to others, which try to outsource these needs to contractors abroad for dumping prices. Heard stories like this from one IBM department, which has a big mail-processing code base in Perl. But that's a very dangerous strategy IMHO. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]