Check out the StackOverflow annual survey, regarding Perl and lots of other things:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/ If you go halfway down to the question "What Languages Are Associated with the Highest Salaries Worldwide?" you'll see that Perl ranks high--higher globally than in the US, but impressively high in both listings. Despite also being listed earlier as a highly "dreaded" language (a category that doesn't mean much because we don't know what experiece or prejudice the respondents were basing responses on). Also, in the "Salary and Experience by Language" section near the bottom, you'll learn that compensation for Perl improves with experience--a nice thing for some of our hoarier members to hear. I was surprised how few people are using languages that are supposedly hot, such as Go. O'Reilly book sales make these languages seem more popular. The survey contains lots of other interesting insights, including ethical stances and personal attributes such as gender identity or mental illness. The respondents were skewed toward white cis-males. Some of the responses were broken down by geography, but I wish more of them were. Andy Oram | Editor O'Reilly Media, Inc. | 617-499-7479 | oreilly.com [image: oreilly_email_logo.png] <http://oreilly.com/> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
