Dear Monks, I have a bunch of general questions that I need answered and instead of filling up the entire Skeers of Perl Wisdom with my questions I am posing them as a list since I figure a few of you will be able to answer them.

1. Is there a "C Monks"? Or something like this. I really need to learn C/C++ because it seems many employers in the NYC area wants that or C# and dot net.

2. ( And I know this will get me flamed ) Can "web services" be written in perl? Should I continue learning perl? I goto all of these job websites and I finally got decent at the Perl language but all of the web development jobs want asp and .net.

I graduated in May and havebeen trying to get work but all I can manage to get my hands on it a few one to two week contracts. And it seems at places likemonster.com, lijobs.com, and the times and newsday if you want to be a web developer Perl is not the way to go. I am buying a book on asp since I obviously need the skills but it makes me wonder if the time for Perl has passed.

This is not a flame just a very serious concern from a recent graduate who learned Perl do do his senior website project.

Any Ideas?

Title edit by tye to add "OT:"

In reply to OT: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp by Angel

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