Reading this report about tech job rise, based on the June report of Dice.com you might learn that the demand for Perl skills dropped by 12% since the beginning of the year.

On the other hand jobs.perl.org seem to indicate a 50% growth from the beginning of this year (see stats). Articles such as this and this and the Dynamic Languages Symposium seem to think that the time of dynamic languages has just came.

Most of the people I talk to also seem to think that Perl is dead and they hardly ever heared about the other dynamic languages. (This might indicated I am not talking to the right people though).

I think I can assume that the majority of the Monks also think that there is a bright future in dynamic languages, especially in Perl.

So what do you think why is this gap between what Dice sees and what the those other articles try to tell or what we would like to belive ?

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