>>>>> "TM" == Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> Linux Magazine's Software Developer Survey TM> We're looking for a few good developers. Software development is one of TM> Linux Magazine's core editorial focus areas and we want to hear what TM> you're interested in, working on, and working with. Are you still using TM> Perl? Is Eclipse dominating the IDE landscape? Are you *gasp* using any TM> of Microsoft's technology? Tell us what the trends are in today's Open TM> Source developer community. i hate that attitude 'are you still using perl?'. perl seems to be more in demand now than i have ever seen. the perl jobs list gets over 100 posts a month and has done so for a long time now. i see jobs all over the world and for higher pay too. i have trouble finding people for the leads i have. almost every perl hacker i know seems to be working. perl just never had or will have the buzz that commercial langs like java do. since java is taught in schools and perl generally isn't you get tons of java kiddies in the workplace. one shop (fidelity) said they hire java kids BECAUSE they are a dime a dozen and easy to find. the fact that 1/3 of them are morons doesn't matter. hiring perl hackers is much harder as a dumb perl hacker is worse than a dumb java kid and there are fewer perl hackers in general. but perl is used everywhere in almost every shop. sometimes you have to look for it but it is there. ARRRRGGGG!!!! uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
