Re: Need food Monk

The pacific's a pretty big place, can you be more specific?

I used to earn pretty reasonable money programming Perl in New Zealand (live in London now). There's certainly work around, but it's not as available or as well paid as someone who programs in Java.

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Re^2: Need food Monk by Anonymous Monk on Jan 10, 2005 at 19:34 UTC
Why is Java are well paid? What do Java programmer do as compared to Perl Programmer?	[reply]
Re^3: Need food Monk by Mutant (Priest) on Jan 11, 2005 at 09:23 UTC
Nothing, but Java is the industry standard. When a manager thinks about doing a project, her first thought will be "Let's do it in Java"... it's another one of those things that no one ever got fired for choosing.	[reply]
Re^4: Need food Monk by exussum0 (Vicar) on Jan 11, 2005 at 15:34 UTC
That's an unfair assessment of java. It's the same as thinking of perl as only a good text manipulation language. Last I checked, perl can do things with Tk, data structures, statistics and so on. ---- Give me strength for today.. I will not talk it away.. Just for a moment.. It will burn through the clouds.. and shine down on me.	[reply]
Re^5: Need food Monk by Mutant (Priest) on Jan 11, 2005 at 16:04 UTC
Re^6: Need food Monk by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2005 at 18:21 UTC
Re^4: Need food Monk by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2005 at 11:29 UTC
"Let's do it in Java" is so 1990s. Managers who keep up with whatever literature they read will go for .NET nowadays.	[reply]
Re^4: Need food Monk by fraktalisman (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2005 at 14:50 UTC
It seems that in Germany, at least regarding web design companies, PHP seems to be considered the standard tool now. People regularly ask me, why did you do it in Perl? Glad to be my own employer! _{fraktalisman keeps rolling}	[reply]