[peterhi]

I was a Perl dev for more than a decade and the only problem we had was when we started to grow the company. We needed programmers who could do Perl but graduates had not even heard of it. How do you evaluate a graduate who had been taught Java as to how well they would do with Perl? Would they even want to learn it?

Learn Java. Work in finance. Take the money :)

Perl devs were self taught hackers. Finding them was nigh on impossible

We ended up with a bunch of Java devs and pivoted to Java for all new applications. As a commercial decision it was sound and the company is doing well

I'm doing Ruby now and facing the same problems but at least the graduates have heard of Ruby so they at least know what we are asking them to do

And yes Perl6 was a massive issue. At least they finally acknowledged that it was really a Perl inspired language and not Perl at all

[commandlinefan]

Sounds like a bunch of perl clutching to me.

;P