For what it's worth I've been working for the past 3 years doing roughly 50% Perl and 50% Java in the financial sector in New York. The original intent of the project manager was to port their existing live pricing site from Perl to Java, but the project became stalled mid-way through due to budget constraints.
In the end we had converted the display portion of the site to Java servlets, but all of the back end data collection and delivery to off-site web-servers remained in Perl. Once we took a critical look at cost/benefit of replacing Perl on the back-end we quickly realized that it was a better choice: the code had been running reliably 24/7 for 2 years, and the regexp parsing tasks would have been much slower and less flexible if implemented in Java. Bob Conabee |-----Original Message----- |From: Vicki Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:51 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Java and Perl | | |I have noticed an increase in the number of job descriptions that seem to |look for about equal amounts of experience in both Java and Perl. I have |never really considered the two languages to play much in the same space; |yes, both are used for web stuff, but differently, and in non-web stuff they |seem very different to me. | |Do a lot of people have both Perl and Java experience? How do you feel about |the job descriptions that look for both? Is this a reasonable pairing, or is |it yet another instance of the "grab bag" job req that has become so popular |lately (Perl, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, UML, and Interwoven Teamsite). |-- |- Vicki | |Vicki Brown ZZZ Journeyman Sourceror: |P.O. Box 1269 zz |\ _,,,---,,_ Scripts & Philtres |San Bruno, CA zz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Perl, Unix, MacOS |94066 USA |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] '---''(_/--' `-'\_) http://www.cfcl.com/~vlb |
