From my experience, Perl usage simply varies with the field in which you program. If you have a programming job that is UI centric, or centered about almost anything other than text / file processing, you won't hear of Perl much. If you are an administrator or web designer/programmer, you will hear about Perl every day.

I think that there is not much difference between .de and the rest of the world here. Getting work here should be relatively easy if you have the "right" skills, as we now also have green cards, which are more or less something like the famous B1 visa over there - you have to be paid a salary of USD 50,000 / year or have a doctorate to be eligible for such a job - guess what the russian printers are now printing instead of dollar notes :).

Perl is called "Perl" in German as well :-) But I also know people who've never heard of Perl ...

In reply to (Corion) Perl Usage in Germany (.de) by Corion
in thread Worldly Monks by Ovid

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