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Hi monks!
I've currently to think about an offer I got here at my company. I currently do 90% of my job coding perl, doing CGI-stuff, simple scripts but also bigger projects.
Now I could take a java-course for some months and then start in a huge java-project, but I still don't know what kind of project it is. But well, the interesting point is that I could learn java, which would be totally new to me. I code in perl now for 9 months but I still learn lots of new things in perl etc.

So I'd like to know from those of you who did both already (java + perl), if it's interesting for someone who knows perl to learn java, or if it's a bit boring compared to perl? Someone told me a while ago that it would be good to learn java to understand OO-Coding, what do you think about this?
The bad thing would definitly be that I wouldn't do much perl for quite a while, which I would miss a bit...but I'll prolly get more bucks when I take the java-part...

giant