Uri Guttman wrote: > i hate that attitude 'are you still using perl?'. Agreed. And thus the posting.
Andy Lester wrote: > I assume that you wrote that rant AFTER you filled out > their survey to say that you are still using Perl, right? Exactly! Uri Guttman wrote: > ...a dumb perl hacker is worse than a dumb java kid... I'm not sure what point your trying to make there. > ...hiring perl hackers is much harder as... Paul Graham's[1] writings echo this and the general sentiment of your comment. The more clever companies (like Google, for example) hire developers that are into the non-mainstream languages. The problem is that even in that context, the focus has shifted from Perl to Python. 1. http://paulgraham.com/icad.html Speaking of Google, a while ago I was contacted by one of their recruiters through my cpan.org alias - an address I use only on CPAN related matters. Makes me wonder if they were spamming everyone with a cpan.org alias. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
