[tudorconstantin]

I am a perl dev for almost 3 years and i learned it at my job after i tried ruby and python.

For more than a year i felt i should have chosen ruby because of how intuitive it feels: you read the code always from left to right, whereas in perl you often either go from right to left or from the center of the line outward. Besides that, fuby also has that principle of less surprise.

However, after I got accustomed with perl, i started to love its expressiveness and flexibility. And now, I almost got to love the "there's more than one way to do it" mantra. Regarding Python, I see it more close to Perl from a readingness perspective, but with much less flexibility embedded.

[lsiebert]

I know perl (among others) which I really like, but I feel like I have to learn python or ruby to be competitive.

[Mithaldu]

That's only a feeling.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl%2C+python%2C+ruby%2C+...

[lsiebert]

Maybe so, but the who's hiring page from May has zero mentions of perl, and quite a few of python and ruby. If there is a good internship for a perl hacker in the Bay Area, I haven't seen it.

I got to meet Larry Wall, (was nice enough to come and talk to my class) and even he seems to have had trouble finding work during his career.

Actually, from your comment history, you seem like a perl aficionado. Maybe you could email me and let me know where I should be looking. I'd email you, but you have no contact info supplied.