> Why is it so important to your boss that the project be done in Perl? It was an existing project developed by the client, and they used Perl. So the technolo

> Why is it so important to your boss that the project be done in Perl? It was an existing project developed by the client, and they used Perl. So the technology was fixed. > And why is it so important to him that you do the project in Perl? That wasn't important, I was just the guy with some free capacity. > As you said, you don't even know Perl. Why isn't the project going to someone who does know it? There was none who knew it (at least as far as I know), the company was a Java shop.