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It was an existing project developed by the client, and they used Perl. So the technology was fixed.
> And why is it so important to him that you do the project in Perl?
That wasn't important, I was just the guy with some free capacity.
> As you said, you don't even know Perl. Why isn't the project going to someone who does know it?
There was none who knew it (at least as far as I know), the company was a Java shop.
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It was an existing project developed by the client, and they used Perl. So the technology was fixed.
> And why is it so important to him that you do the project in Perl?
That wasn't important, I was just the guy with some free capacity.
> As you said, you don't even know Perl. Why isn't the project going to someone who does know it?
There was none who knew it (at least as far as I know), the company was a Java shop.