Creating a perl developer survey

neilb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

What questions should be asked in a Perl developer survey? Here are my starters for 10:

Is Perl your primary development language?
What level of Perl experience would you give yourself?
How long have you been programming in Perl?
What version(s) of Perl do your systems run on?
Is programming in Perl part of your daily job?
How do you find reusable code, libraries and tools?
Have you released any code to CPAN?
Have you written any code in Perl 6?
What is your preferred OO framework?
What development environment(s) do you use for Perl?
What framework, if any, do you use for web development?
Other than Perl, what are your primary development languages?

What other questions should be included?

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Re: Creating a perl developer survey by johngg (Canon) on Dec 18, 2012 at 23:27 UTC
One question I'd be inclined to add would be:- Which are the top five core features of Perl that you find indispensable? I think that might give insights into coding styles and idioms. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply]
Re: Creating a perl developer survey by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Dec 19, 2012 at 10:19 UTC
Without knowing the intent of your survey, here is a random selection of questions that I find of interest: Do you have an account at Perl monks? How many developers in your team? company? What development "methodology" do you follow? How many lines of Perl code are there at your workplace? What are the most common code smells in your Perl code at work? Do you follow a Perl coding standard at work? Do you perform code reviews at work? Do you use Perl::Tidy? Perl::Critic? Do you document with POD? Do you use automated testing? TDD? Which testing framework/s do you use? Do you use an automated build system at work? Which build tools? How do you go about Perl debugging? Do you use the Perl debugger? What are your favourite Perl books? Web sites? What are your favourite Perl tools? What are your favourite CPAN modules? Which version control system do you use? Which bug tracking system do you use? Do you use a single OS? Multiple OSes? Which one/s? How do you code for concurrency? Perl threads? Processes? POE? AnyEvent? How do you do error handling? Logging?	[reply]
Re: Creating a perl developer survey by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Dec 19, 2012 at 09:48 UTC
Some previous Perl surveys: Perl Foundation 2010 Survey results Data-PerlSurvey2007 YAPC::Europe::2006 - Survey & Feedback Results Test Survey Results Neil Bowers Perl Developer Survey blog. Oh is that you? :)	[reply]
Re: Creating a perl developer survey by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Dec 19, 2012 at 08:17 UTC
What version of Perl are you working on? Do you see yourself programming in Perl in 5 years? How often do you download modules from CPAN? Are you connected to the world of academics? Are you part of a development team?	[reply]
Re: Creating a perl developer survey by rpnoble419 (Pilgrim) on Dec 19, 2012 at 04:25 UTC
if you use DBI, what database do you use?	[reply]
Re: Creating a perl developer survey by Anonymous Monk on Dec 19, 2012 at 00:57 UTC
What questions should be asked in a Perl developer survey? What are those? A survey about what?	[reply]
Re^2: Creating a perl developer survey by bobdabuilda (Beadle) on Dec 20, 2012 at 05:53 UTC
From the look of the questions, I'm guessing the intent is not so much that of a survey, more of a job interview :)	[reply]