Perl jobs

cbrooks on 2002-07-15T18:48:13

<disclaimer>I'm not actually looking for a job right now.</disclaimer>

But, why are there so few Perl jobs out there?

Here's a stat that might illuminate the point: Sr. Software Engineer finds 103 hits on jobs.boston.com. Sr. software engineer perl returns 3. (Java and C++ return 12 and 11 respectively). Of those Perl positions, two expect Java / C++ as well. The third is actually a technical writer position.

Perhaps the lesson is that you have to have solid experience in multiple languages to be marketable today. Perl isn't a bad language to have, as long as you have Java or C++ as well. (For example, 48 positions on jobs.boston.com mention Perl in some context -- but compare that with 130 that mention Java and 89 that mention C++.)

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Is this just now?

petdance on 2002-07-15T20:05:13

Is this just now? Sounds to me like 3% of jobs being for Perl wouldn't be too far out of whack anyway, regardless of the economy.

half empty, or half full?

wickline on 2002-07-15T22:20:19

> But, why are there so few Perl jobs out there?

...or another way to put it:

    why are there so many vacant Java/C++ positions when
    none of the perl hackers will vacate their positions?

Maybe we just like our jobs more than they do :)

-matt

boston jobs

ask on 2002-07-19T14:03:03

three jobs in boston and even one at boston.com.