Re: [tlug] perl? (was: Employment for "oldies")

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:22:10AM +0200, Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> Amazon's entire web stack (and many backend services) was Perl from
> 1995-2007.

Yahoo also had that reputation, but I have no insight if that is
still true.

Maybe perl is then the new cobol, atleast in Europe cobol programers
seem to be searched.  Depending on circumstances, fixing old code is
an alternative to implementing in a new language.

Chris