> Learning Ruby (or Python, or Java, or even PHP) will get you actual work far more often now than Perl. Please only say such things when you can back them up.

> Learning Ruby (or Python, or Java, or even PHP) will get you actual work far more often now than Perl. Please only say such things when you can back them up. Yes, learning Java will get you more jobs (though, who really wants to do Java for a living?), but you'll still enounter Perl in more jobs than the other languages you mentioned: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Perl%2C+Ruby%2C+Python%2C+Java%2C+PHP&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Perl%2C+Ruby%2C+Python%2C+...