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Ruth Holloway at Red Hat's marketing site, OpenSource.com, has a retrospective on three decades of perl covering some history and a few of the top user groups. The powerful and flexible scripting language perl turns 30 at the end of this year. It is a practical extraction and reporting language widely used even today and has a dedicated community. It's ease of use and power made it the go-to tool through the boom of the 90's and 00's when the WWW was growing exponentially. However, its flexible syntax, while often an advantage, also functions as a sort of Rorschach test. One that some programmers fail. Perhaps two of its main strengths are pattern matching and CPAN. The many, mature perl modules available from CPAN make it a first choice for many when needed to draft something quickly or deal with a quick task.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by http on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:39AM (6 children)
Consider the nature of the site you're posting this 'complaint' on.
If your company can't find them, it's because it ain't looking.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:16AM (3 children)
Exactly.
It doesn't take that long to train someone to use Perl, because there are so many examples laying around to borrow from.
Its really not that complex. You aren't going to put that new hire to work launching rockets for SpaceX right away.
You don't HAVE to write obfuscated code or exercise every function in the library just because its there.
You can write simple code, easy to understand, that you will look back on and chuckle about, until you look at the date you
wrote it an realize its been in production long than your first born, now college sophomore, has been alive.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @09:50AM
It's not "laying", you asshat American.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:15PM (1 child)
It's not "laying", you asshat American!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:51PM
They wanted him out of their lives. Said he was "no longer necessary, or useful." But Clippy is back, and he's angrier than ever.
https://memegenerator.net/instance/21299898/clippy-it-looks-like-you-are-starting-trouble-would-you-like-help [memegenerator.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:54AM
Perl is ugly, so programmers don't want to work with it, particularly taking over legacy code base. That's why it's hard to find perl coders.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:53AM
Yeah, where are they looking? I would do work for such a company provided they'd let you work remotely, mainly because it's been a long time since I got paid to use perl and I love the language.
Washington DC delenda est.