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> "why on earth is someone learning Perl in 2009" Pick any of copious documentation, more jobs available than for Python and Ruby combined, availability on alm
by chromatic 17y ago
> "why on earth is someone learning Perl in 2009"
Pick any of copious documentation, more jobs available than for Python and Ruby combined, availability on almost any platform you're likely to encounter, a testing culture unmatched by any other language of which I'm aware, and ~19,224 individual distributions freely available, installable, and usable from the CPAN.
- sailormoon 17y agoYeah, but what kind of jobs? Building something new? Look, I am not attacking Perl. I am just stating the reality that in 2009, a Perl job will be maintenance. There is nothing new. This might be very insulting but that's the simple fact. I know of about 4 big new projects happening in this city using Rails. I don't know about other cities but i assume it is similar. Learn Rails, right now, is my sincere advice, offered in good faith.
- chromatic 17y ago> Yeah, but what kind of jobs? Building something new? Look at the job data. It's publicly available. This is how statistics work. > I know of about 4 big new projects happening in this city using Rails. I don't know about other cities but i assume.... This neither how statistics work, nor facts.
- sailormoon 17y agoDid you forget to paste in the statistics/facts that show me how wrong I am?