Re^5: How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules?

I would be highly surprised to find a Thai programmer of Perl

I used to work in London for a company called Venda, who had an office in Thailand with a large number of Perl programmers; I worked with a couple of them that had moved to the UK, and several more that visited. Around 2014 the company was bought by Netsuite (later absorbed by Oracle), who fairly promptly killed off the Perl product and moved everyone that stayed onto their own Java-based product.

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Re^6: How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2023 at 15:04 UTC
That's quite interesting, thank you. But it leaves me with some lingering questions. Were the programmers expats, Indians, Chinese, or some other non-indigenous group, or were they actually Thai? If they were Thai, how did they happen to learn Perl? Did the company provide their own training? Blessings, ~Polyglot~	[reply]
Re^7: How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by hv (Prior) on Dec 03, 2023 at 16:08 UTC
They were Thai. The company provided training, mostly employing fresh graduates; after I had successfully organised training from TheDamian in the London office a couple of times, I believe he also did sessions for the Thailand team at least once. The office was in Bangkok (probably here), near to offices of Microsoft and at least one other large tech company.	[reply]