As some of you may know, I live in the USA but have been searching for work in Europe for quite some time. My brother who lives in Britain and my father who lives in Germany have both told me that they (both programmers) have never even heard of Perl. In fact, in a recent e-mail, my father said the following about Perl:
I asked [the programmers] here in our IS dept. but they've never heard of it. What web programming is done here is generally not done in IS but by guys like me and it's all Borland's JBuilder Ver. 3.
JBuilder? Ick. Stuck in the land of Java (though I wouldn't mind checking that out myself -- don't hate me, please).

From the e-mail snippet above, aside from the extreme difficulties of US citizens getting work in Europe without a work permit, I'm now beginning to suspect that my primary skills are useless! Does anyone know of how common Perl is around the world? Is it called different things in different languages? Particularly, I wonder what it might be called in German, as I can reply more effectively to my father's e-mail.

On a side note, any European PerlNuns wanna marry a cute, French speaking Geek from Oregon? :) Um, that was a joke, folks.

In reply to Worldly Monks by Ovid

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