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To some extent it's already true. There's a lot of Perl in the financial sector. That community is paying a lot more than the average for Perl dev's already :-)
by adrianhoward 14y ago
To some extent it's already true. There's a lot of Perl in the financial sector. That community is paying a lot more than the average for Perl dev's already :-)
- gouranga 14y agoWe in the finance sector killed it years ago. We're now trying to kill java and move to python.
- adrianhoward 14y agoWell - since you've still not managed to kill COBOL I'd bet on there still being a lot of Perl in ten years time :-)
- gouranga 14y agoWe killed that as well!
- adrianhoward 14y agoConsidering the number of folk dealing with COBOL systems I bumped into at GOTO Copenhagen last week, and the number of COBOL jobs that pop up after a quick google I would beg to differ. I can, of course, understand why you would really want it to be dead ;-)
- gouranga 14y agoI'm quite surprised actually! I've not seen COBOL in the finance sector (at least in the UK) for about 5-6 years. Perhaps there still are a few corners where there are some rotting corpses hacking away on AS/400s which are actually gluing everything together! I remember getting to sledgehammer the crap out of our AS/400 platforms and incinerate two entire pallets of IBM manuals - was "a great day for freedom" to paraphrase Pink Floyd.