[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst Marketing Plan Draft

[Alex Pavlovic]

Hi,

I would have to concur with Paul here. I don't know about United States, but 
here in Canada, there seems to be a growing trend to hire php programmers for 
web projects, at least from my experience. In the past we contracted out to 
variety of clients, less then 30% were perl jobs, the rest were explicitly 
requested by the client to be LAMP oriented. It's kind of funny for a 
language which doesn't even have namespace support. 

I think that searching purely on keyword terms such as perl,php,etc... doesn't 
give you indication whether the job entails ASIC engineer or web developer
with perl skills, so probably a search with more criteria would be better to 
execute.

Our recommendations do not always hold, the hardest part is persuading the 
client into using a certain technology, and like Paul indicated this 
basically comes down to level of support and developer base. Usually their 
managers will say things like "We need a language that everyone in the 
company can use and understand quickly", and since there are way more php 
programmers favoring their lovely language this completely obliterates your 
argument. 

Lot of these companies have archaic systems that are completely 
un-maintanable, yet they refuse to convert at any price, because they still 
believe quick and dirty is the way to go.


Cheers.


On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:24, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 21:41 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > The single biggest obstable you are likely to find in the real world
> > is I suspect that there aren't enough perl programmers. There are far,
> > far more PHP and Java programmers than Perl
>
> Java, yes.  PHP... I doubt it.  There might be more PHP programmers than
> Perl programmers who only do web sites, but overall Perl is a pretty
> popular tool:
> http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl%2Cpython%2Cphp%2Cjava%2Cruby
>
> It's easy to lose sight of that in the face of all the PHP blog posts
> though.
>
> - Perrin
>
>
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