I had an interview with Apple for a hardware design job a year or so ago.
They said they explicitly forbid the use of perl for any of their glue
function scripting needs. they said they use java.
I think I was unable to entirely suppress how much I thought this was a
stupid idea in the middle of the interview. I wasnt offered a job, but I
dont think I wouod have been happy if I had taken a job there with such a
dogmatic approach to that.
I do hope that perl 6 might make a better name for itself in terms of how
much of the code is line noise. but the interviewer said one of the reasons
that they didnt allow perl was because it wasnt strongly typed.
I mentioned during the interview I had 5 or so years doing Ada and VHDL for
avionics projects, and that strongly typed is probably a good idea when
peoples lives depend on solid code. but that when youre trying to write a
glue script to take log files from a regression and generate a report, you
dont want to spend your time converting strings to integers and integers to
floats and so on.
i spent some time teaching myaelf Java after that interview just so i could
at least answer 'what does this snippet of code do?' interview questions.
I have to say I was not impressed with Java.
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-----Original message-----
From: Uri Guttman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 00:20:47 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Suppresion
On 12/09/2011 06:38 PM, John Tsangaris wrote:
I am sure this has been hashed and rehashed, but is the corporate world
suppressing Perl? I realize people pick and choose the languages they
support and list on their websites, but I was looking up the youtube api
and see on code.google.com that they have dev guides for Java, .NET,
PHP, and Python with client libraries for those as well as Objective-C
and Javascript. This being only one example, I see a systemic omission
of Perl from anything popular. Is this accurate ? Why is Perl omitted :
I must be seeing things.
there is a Net::Google on cpan so google probably doesn't need to
provide that. hard to find an api/protocol without a cpan module for it.
one module says Interface to the Google AJAX Search API. so as long as
google publishes the api, perl will be hacked for it. this also means
the other lang communities are too dumb to write their own libs to
published apis. :)
uri
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