Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers (in Amsterdam)

Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by Jun8 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:53PM (#1784443)

Hmm, so the news of Perl's deaths have been exaggerated then?

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Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by misterm on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:55PM (#1784451)

Perl is still very much alive and well.

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Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by borism on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:41PM (#1784619)

unfortunately if I may add :)

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Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by Nate75Sanders on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:39PM (#1785071)

If you search on indeed.com, perl has more hits than python and ruby combined by a solid margin. Certainly many of these are for sys admin positions, but I still think it's a pretty telling statistic.

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Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by thibaut_barrere on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:07PM (#1784502)

Well, something that surprises me is why hasn't this post been upvoted at least once (after 25 minutes) ?

I'm pretty sure it can be interesting to many more people (I would be if I loved perl, but I don't practice it).

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Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ... by btilly on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:20PM (#1784776)

Perl is easy to learn. It also borrowed from a lot of languages, and a lot of languages borrowed from it, which makes it easier.

If you already know C, bash, Ruby, Python or PHP, you will find a lot of carryover to Perl.

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