Re^7: The current state of Perl6

I have tried selling Perl to a lot of projects that I have encountered. Perl today is only accepted in the dimension awk is accepted. That is for quick throw away small scripts which will be run once to do some very minor text parsing jobs.

I hardly see any Perl jobs on the Career Market, most of them are just to maintain some old Perl code written long back, and they call it legacy code.

Perl 5's death was announced the day Perl 6 birth was announced. No matter how many Perl 5 releases you make you just are putting a old dying man into ICU and getting him some more time to live. Unfortunately Perl 6 baby keeps suffering from an abortion every now and then. Because the parents can't really decide what they want, a girl or a boy. If the spec were to be frozen, only a single and complete implementation focused upon. The Perl 6 baby would probably be celebrating its second or third birthday by now.

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Re^8: The current state of Perl6 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 20, 2010 at 06:20 UTC
I've had seven recruiters contact me so far this year for Perl jobs (approximately twice the rate as last year). We are about to hire JAPH into the shop at somewhere close to six figures. A frozen, rigorous spec in Perl 6 wouldn't help meet deadlines and it might drive away a lot of the talent. It would promote the same things that had a foot on the neck of Perl 5 for a decade. Smart developers having fun doing what they love is what Perl needs. That appears to be what's happening in all corners of Perl today.	[reply]
Re^9: The current state of Perl6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:16 UTC
I'm very happy that you've been contacted by recruiters. First of all you're somewhere in the U.S. , let me tell you that across Europe(non-UK) the job market for Perl has plummeted completely. There are a few Perl jobs to be found and most(read >90%) of them are sysadmin-like jobs and even more of them are for small companies which may disappear(read vaporize) completely within one year.	[reply]
Re^10: The current state of Perl6 by Burak (Chaplain) on Apr 20, 2010 at 18:55 UTC
Unfortunately, there is much truth in this post...	[reply]
Re^10: The current state of Perl6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:23 UTC
Usually the Indian outsourcing market is a buzz with job demands, even here there are nearly zero Perl requirements. As some one said before there is so much FUD, people aren't bothered anymore.	[reply]
Re^11: The current state of Perl6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:57 UTC
Re^12: The current state of Perl6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2010 at 07:25 UTC
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Re^9: The current state of Perl6 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2010 at 07:34 UTC
Even COBOL and FORTRAN invites jobs. And frozen doesn't mean frozen once for all.	[reply]