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Perl still leads the pack on indeed.com. And I keep getting requests for Perl training. It is always interesting to see the disconnect between what is popular w

Perl still leads the pack on indeed.com. And I keep getting requests for Perl training. It is always interesting to see the disconnect between what is popular with programmers, and what is actually popular in the industry.

hp50g 14y ago
That's always the case outside of startup culture, which is why despite being a Unix/Linux guy, I end up in Visual C++ quite often and deal with all sorts of esoteric languages and tools. It's quite a bit more fun that sitting in front of say Python or Ruby only all day.
zorbo 14y ago
Interesting. When I do some searches on the Dutch version of Indeed.com, I get very different results: Perl (421 hits), PHP (2397 hits), Python (493 hits), Java (3173 hits). The top of the Perl listings seem to be for system administrators, and are not a required skill. Contrasting that to PHP, where the top are all specifically asking for PHP. I personally haven't spotted Perl in the wild as a serious programming language for a long time. Again, it seems Perl is mostly popular with system administrators without much programming experience. But that might very well be just my little corner of the world, which happens to be a hosting company.
- adrianhoward 14y ago
  Oh it's definitely still out there. Still used a lot in the finance sector in places. A bunch of companies have a stack of perl infrastructure that "just works" and want to keep it that way. Still folk starting new projects with it (Duck Duck Go, Bunchmail, etc.). As many as PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. - maybe not. But new projects are still rolling out.
- mercurial 14y ago
  Booking.com (Amsterdam) runs on Perl.
snaky 14y ago
That's how it always was with Perl community, and I like that mature and calm attitude. "What's all that hype about? Ah, someone just reinvented yet another wheel [1]. Oh, kids these days, so loud, aren't they." The Perl community is not so vocal, that's it and that's just pragmatic. Why yelling about nice tech you done? It works, it solves your problem, it's uploaded to CPAN, it's not a silver bullet, and that's OK. Look at some Perl project like Cheater [2] - that's best tool for generation of test DB data available. Simple and extendable. And there's no hype about it. While I cannot even imagine an amount of hype if it were produced by Ruby guys (especially a couple of years ago) or NodeJS crowd. [1] The bleeding edge in BigData'2013 - pipelening! So wonderful! Oh, wait a minute.. Is that Schwartzian transform we use from 1994? [2] https://github.com/agentzh/cheater https://github.com/agentzh/cheater

hp50g 14y ago

That's always the case outside of startup culture, which is why despite being a Unix/Linux guy, I end up in Visual C++ quite often and deal with all sorts of esoteric languages and tools. It's quite a bit more fun that sitting in front of say Python or Ruby only all day.

zorbo 14y ago

Interesting. When I do some searches on the Dutch version of Indeed.com, I get very different results: Perl (421 hits), PHP (2397 hits), Python (493 hits), Java (3173 hits). The top of the Perl listings seem to be for system administrators, and are not a required skill. Contrasting that to PHP, where the top are all specifically asking for PHP. I personally haven't spotted Perl in the wild as a serious programming language for a long time. Again, it seems Perl is mostly popular with system administrators without much programming experience. But that might very well be just my little corner of the world, which happens to be a hosting company.

adrianhoward 14y ago
Oh it's definitely still out there. Still used a lot in the finance sector in places. A bunch of companies have a stack of perl infrastructure that "just works" and want to keep it that way. Still folk starting new projects with it (Duck Duck Go, Bunchmail, etc.). As many as PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. - maybe not. But new projects are still rolling out.
mercurial 14y ago
Booking.com (Amsterdam) runs on Perl.

snaky 14y ago

That's how it always was with Perl community, and I like that mature and calm attitude. "What's all that hype about? Ah, someone just reinvented yet another wheel [1]. Oh, kids these days, so loud, aren't they." The Perl community is not so vocal, that's it and that's just pragmatic. Why yelling about nice tech you done? It works, it solves your problem, it's uploaded to CPAN, it's not a silver bullet, and that's OK. Look at some Perl project like Cheater [2] - that's best tool for generation of test DB data available. Simple and extendable. And there's no hype about it. While I cannot even imagine an amount of hype if it were produced by Ruby guys (especially a couple of years ago) or NodeJS crowd. [1] The bleeding edge in BigData'2013 - pipelening! So wonderful! Oh, wait a minute.. Is that Schwartzian transform we use from 1994? [2] https://github.com/agentzh/cheater https://github.com/agentzh/cheater