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From my experience, companies that want Perl programmers are mostly big ones with plenty of inertia, that have some legacy build code slapped together years ago
by dozzie 11y ago
From my experience, companies that want Perl programmers are mostly big ones
with plenty of inertia, that have some legacy build code slapped together
years ago by a clueless guy that thought he can write Perl (though he really
couldn't), then extended by Java-only or C++-only programmers, so it now
stinks heavily and can't be replaced or rewritten (because of inertia).
Sad thing, given that I do like Perl. But it may be just my surroundings.
- zimpenfish 11y agoOr there's legacy code slapped together years ago that's gone through a whole bunch of "my personal methodology" contractors, each of which has added another layer of nonsense and NIH madness, until you're left with a huge and brutally complex system that almost no-one understands, is a brain-melting nightmare to follow, and is impossible to change without constant failure. (Why, yes, I am currently working on a Perl codebase.)