[SimHacker]

Good luck finding any decent Perl programmers to hire. And if you do find them, good luck paying their exorbitant hazard pay and keeping them happy enough to stick around. And then after they leave, good luck finding more Perl programmers to willing to clean up the unmaintainable mess they left behind.

[arc_of_descent]

Whats with the luck factor? You can hire newbies and train them to learn Perl. The Learning Perl books are fantastic.

If you have an experienced team and new programmers willing and eager to learn Perl, lady Luck can go for a fuck.

[Diederich]

I do a fair amount of Perl hiring, and here in the south bay (silicon valley), it's been pretty easy to hire good Perl talent.

[antitrust]

You should come to one of our local PerlMongers meetings (http://pm.org/).

I think it would change your mind about a number of things!