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Why is Java are well paid? What do Java programmer do as compared to Perl Programmer?

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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.
      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.

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        I'm not sure I made any assessment of Java. I simply stated that Java programmers aren't, in general, any better than Perl programmers, and that the main reason they get paid more is that Java is the current industry standard.
      "Let's do it in Java" is so 1990s. Managers who keep up with whatever literature they read will go for .NET nowadays.
      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!