Re:The Niche Programmer
by samsk on Sunday May 01, 2022 @10:42AM
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Yeah, Perl - thats my niche language.
Most interviews are like, 'You know Perl right ?' followed by 'When can you start ?'.
And even though the number of openings is small, the pay is good enough to overcome few weeks/months of unpaid vacation if needed ;)
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My first internship was trying to figure out all the Perl scripts left behind by a sysadmin who got fired. I learned a lot that summer. I really learned to like Perl after writing my own programs in in, and making sure to document them well!
I've thought of returning to working with Perl but the one thing which puts me off is Catalyst.
I was flabbergasted once to see Perl rates right up at the top with Clojure and Scala but I suppose Perl's a bit like COBOL these days in that only greybeards still work with it.
I assume these are Perl 5 jobs, not Perl 6?
Re:The Niche Programmer
by ByteJockey on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:41PM
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I think everyone working in perl 6 calls it Raku now. Perl generally means perl 5 (or possibly older versions in a really legacy environment).