Yes! If you have gained a bit of experience in Perl, you will feel a lot more productive and proud of your work. At least, I do. Also Perl is actually not about

Yes! If you have gained a bit of experience in Perl, you will feel a lot more productive and proud of your work. At least, I do. Also Perl is actually not about the hype. The Perl developers I know are usually quite humble and just want to have fun developing software and expanding their horizon. It is the ultimate hacking language! Because it is not so popular (because of lack of Marketing...) you might have to look a bit longer to find a Perl job, but they do exist and the search is worth it!