It is hard to say if Perl helped my career. It was my primary programming language for last four years and I cannot really say if my career would be better or worse if I were programming, say, in PHP :)

What really helped my career is my small contributions in open source. I got one job partially because of perl module (Mail::CheckUser) I wrote and I got another job partially because I've been helping people on HTML::Mason mailing list.

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