Based on what I read from forums I am thinking to learn PHP or someother scripting language aswell as Perl itself may not be much useful as career option. Am I wrong here?

I've had fun and good payment while working on a Perl job, and got another attractive offer for a full time Perl programming job. So for me Perl was a good career move.

Whatever you learn will likely be good for your career - but it really depends on what you want to do in the long run.

I can't recommend any specific language to you, but I can point out that lots of glue technologies are also worth learning, and may even be more "universal": Whatever programming languages you write your web applications in, you will certainly benefit from a good knowledge of HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, security concepts like XSS and XSRF, and maybe things like SQL.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

In reply to Re: PHP or Python or other language? which is better career choice along with Perl and Java? by moritz
in thread PHP or Python or other language? which is better career choice along with Perl and Java? by lucky3

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