> In practice you're more likely to find old, hard to maintain Perl code bases that noone is able or wants to rewrite in another language, if you get hired to p

> In practice you're more likely to find old, hard to maintain Perl code bases that noone is able or wants to rewrite in another language, if you get hired to program in Perl. If there was a realistic choice to use another language, it was likely made already years ago. Having worked in several corporations now I have to respectfully disagree. My experience is that either the code base was scheduled to be retired (but we all know how that usually turns out: the app is used for at least 3x(abs($retiredate - $now)) + $rand ), nobody could be bothered to keep the system current, or there was always something more important to do (which overlaps a bit with the second point). Come to think of it, I really can't come up with a situation where you can't replace perl with a reasonable amount of work? But then again, I'm not active in the perl field.