Here in my small country, it is like that - there are few Perl programmers though
there is visible lack for such ones. Most Perl programmers are just coders and
cannot make diff between Perl and C style for example. Never-the-less most of
them pretend to know what they do and - yes - spread ugly 'knowledge'. I make
efforts to focus the small Perl community attention to the Monastery, but you
cannot make the PHP, Java or whatever monkey to learn really powerful languages
while such creature feels comfortable in its own limited brain luggage.