The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation

Re:The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Rak... by StayTrue on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:35AM (#33405486)

I miss Perl. I managed a startup that built in Perl and C++ simultaneously. The Perl MVP allowed us to get into customer premises right away and we fed that learning back into the C++ version (on which our acquisition was based). In retrospect we would not have succeeded without Perl.

I used it recently to generate reports from analytics and it felt good. If there are remote jobs calling for Perl, send them my way.

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Re:The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Rak... by mfontani on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:44AM (#33405583)

Look at https://perl.careers and/or search for Perl on LinkedIn, or look at https://jobs.perl.org.

Plenty jobs for Perl developers.

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Re:The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Rak... by nousermane on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:51AM (#33405678)

Perl has some weird quirks - dollar-variables vs. percent-variables vs. at-variables (and sometimes you can "cast" one into other), round-brackets where most others have squiggly (and vice-versa)...

But once you get over that, it's a great language. First-class regex, -pine options. A lot to love about it.

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Re:The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Rak... by bitexploder on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:56AM (#33405741)

Many a Unix environment and production system were held together by Perl glue in the late 90s/early 00s :)

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Re:The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Rak... by darrenwestall on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:54PM (#33411928)

I’m hiring - email in my profile if you were serious :)

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