>>Managers want to move away from Perl. >>I want to move closer to Perl. I remember as a young programmer, our client once asked us to produce tool to migrate

>>Managers want to move away from Perl. >>I want to move closer to Perl. I remember as a young programmer, our client once asked us to produce tool to migrate an entire legacy version control system with something like 20 years of history to a different version control system. It first went to up to some UML drawing Java architect, he came up with a estimate to have it done in 3 months with a team of 2-3 people working full time. The client was like "Never mind, forget about it". A few weeks passed by and client had dropped their mind to migrate the history and opted to just have the latest files checked in. In a random discussion with my manager it got a mention. My manager asked to check if I can do it quickly. I remember I wrote a script over the weekend and had every thing done. It was in Perl. The script then got passed around and lot of people migrated their repos. Finally it reached the Java architect. He had a hard time believing something like a few thousand lines of functioning feature rich code could even be written over the weekend. We had a good talk about it. Perl belongs to a very different culture of programming/programmers who care only about solving problems and getting things done. Its not exactly a language that blends well with corporate political goals.