The majority of a language's usage isn't in front-facing projects, particularly if your language's name start with "Per" and ends in "l". A few usages you won't pick up:
- Backend systems in brokerages and other financial institutions to manage the batch processing of their bond transactions.
- All those random one-off scripts sysadmins and other devs write cause sh sucks worse than Perl.
- All those webapps written in Perl before Java was the shiznit that still need maintenance devs.
Let's face it - this whole dick-measuring thing is only cause y'all afraid we've got the smaller one. I have never had a problem finding a job working in Perl. For the last 2.5 years, I've been working from home exclusively and look to be doing so for the next several years. I know and/or can find people who do the same thing in language X for all values of X. Anyone who says otherwise is lazy.
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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