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>Perl's unpopularity Is a myth actually. > Tom Radcliffe, recently presented a talk at YAPC North America titled “The Perl Paradox.” This concept refers to th
by snaky 8y ago
>Perl's unpopularity
Is a myth actually.
> Tom Radcliffe, recently presented a talk at YAPC North America titled “The Perl Paradox.” This concept refers to the fact that Perl has become virtually invisible in recent years while remaining one of the most important and critical modern programming languages. Little, if any, media attention has been paid to it, despite being ubiquitous in the backrooms of the enterprise.
> Yet at ActiveState, we have seen our Perl business continue to grow and thrive. Increasingly, our customers tell us that not only are they using more Perl but they’re doing more sophisticated things with it. Perl itself recently made it back into the Top 10 of the Tiobe rankings, and it remains one of the highest paying technologies. Therein lies the paradox.
https://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/07/perl-paradox https://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/07/perl-paradox
- zzzcpan 8y agoAt the bottom of top 20 now and pretty much no job openings in most countries.
- Verdex_3 8y agoWith perl's use cases, I would be a bit surprised to see a job specifically for programming in perl. It's a tool that you use to support your other infrastructure. It's not a tool that you generally use to build up that infrastructure. Similarly, I don't expect to see many jobs openings for wrenchers, but I fully expect a mechanic being hired someplace to be able to use a wrench.
- kazinator 8y ago> see a job specifically for programming in perl That was exactly seen some twenty years ago. Perl as used to build infrastructure, like entire back-ends for sites and whatever. You don't see those jobs anymore.
- purerandomness 8y agoThere are generally no job openings for engineers anywhere, because they all rely on headhunters and recruiters. Try https://perl.careers/ https://perl.careers/ for example. I first heard of them from this slide deck that any developer, regardless of tech stack, should read: https://de.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-developer-cvrsum-that-will-get-you-hired https://de.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-develop...