On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:08:59PM -0800, William R Ward wrote:
>
> My current client is winding down my contract, and at the same time
> offering me a full-time job - where I would learn Java and help train
> customers on their product.
>
> It's tempting - but not because I want to learn Java. Because Perl
> seems to be dead.
!! You gotta be kidding !!
I'm running monthly training courses in London for IBM which are
consistently full: a few administrators (the SP range and Tivoli use Perl
extensively), but a lot of other people: web development and management
and application people. In some quarters (City of London, Wall St.,
Zurich), Perl seems to be known as "the MQ scripting language".
>[...]
> What to do? Abandon Perl and take the job offer? Or am I just not
> looking in the right place?
I think you must not be looking in the right place ...
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Chris Benson
