Oh, I think it's 25-35%.

mostly the companies use Perl in the 'Testing Department' Only.

How many companies do you know? :-)

if anybody has any other observation then please share it

Yes, I have.

I work as a Perl consultant for a company based in Lisbon. Now, Lisbon only has about one million habitants, and yet we have a bunch of clients that actually use Perl to great extent.

Sure, there's probably more companies around here using other things other than Perl, but the thing is: out of all these clients... I can't recall one that uses Perl in a Testing Department :-)

out of all these clients... I can't recall one that uses Perl in a Testing Department

Hm, perhaps you should buy them a book on Perl Testing?

I think the world is using just 20-30% perl capacity.

And 20-30% of C capacity. And 20-30% of Python capacity. And 20-30% of Ruby capacity. And 20-30% of Java capacity. And 20-30% of COBOL capacity. And 20-30% of Pascal capacity. etc. etc

What Perl can do and what $foo can do often overlap. They can't both be used for everything.

I am Not able to search a good job on any Job-sites where any company is using Perl to great extent

http://jobs.perl.org/ - many many jobs in which Perl is not used solely for testing.

And 20-30% of COBOL capacity.

Nah... COBOL's been going at about 350% capacity for years.

(Actually, I'm totally confused over what "capacity" means in this whole context.)

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

• A model of a PBX to test mobile phone software (used as a PBX at 9/11 to look for mobile phone signals)
• A website to serve various media
• A conversion tool between one database to another where the vendor's tools were inadequate
• Various sysadmin needs over the years (awk and sed are icky)
• Several web applications that do ad-hoc reporting on millions of rows of data.

I've been in the workforce for under 10 years and that's what I've run across. You're just not looking in the right places.

It's easier to get someone to learn a new language then it is to turn a web-programmer into a systems programmer, or an applications programmer into a system administrator.

If I hire, or am involved in the hiring process, the languages you know can certainly play a role - but I'm far more interested whether someone is a network person, an application programmer or something else. Certainly, if the hiring is to fill three floors of programmers to write a gigantic financial application, it's generally known what language they'll be coding in. But that usually isn't Perl. It used to be mostly C and C++, and Pascal before that. Currently, it's more Java and .NET. Perl is a lot more used in jobs where the job description requires you to do certain tasks - with much more freedom to use tools.

Remember that more people are hired to be a carpenter, than to be a hammer wielder.

It's easier to get someone to learn a new language then it is to turn a web-programmer into a systems programmer, or an applications programmer into a system administrator.

I should start with that I agree and that I am a Perl lover.

That said, it is quite a time investment to learn Perl. And it doesn't stay in the head easily, either -- and needs more work than most environments to keep current.

That is the disadvantage of not being minimal and have a totally non-orthogonal set of libraries (yes, they couldn't be done any other way, probably).

Some tools are just more of an investment to keep proficient with.

Phil

I am wondering though where you are located as I seem to detect an accent in your writing ;-)
I have always been curious about the state of Perl in various countries.
Is it safe to assume that the US is where most Perl users/jobs are located?

jayrom

Is it safe to assume that the US is where most Perl users/jobs are located?

http://jobs.perl.org/country/ - available Perl jobs sorted by country! (Also a good example of what happens when you allow free form data input and don't add a layer of sanity checking)

If http://jobs.perl.org/country/ would give any indication on the number of Perl jobs available, it would be a said state of affairs. Just one job available in countries like Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, or Italy. That is, if those jobs are still available as several listings date from August.

I get the impression that the number of Perl jobs out there is a much, much larger than the number of listings on http://jobs.perl.org.

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