[Catalyst] catalyst/perl and resources

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/19/2006 10:11:51 AM:

> What is the largest size dev team people are aware working on a cat
> based site?
>
> If you had a small project that was growing from one or two people
> that needed (say) 5 or 6, what kind of problems does that present?
>
> I've been keeping half an eye on the perl jobs market over the last
> months, where I am (Belgium) there aren't many, but the ones that come
> up seem to hang around. I'm getting the impression that it isn't too
> easy to recruit perlers.

I think this is because there are many people that claim to code in perl
that have not really made it over the learning curve.  Good perl coders
tend to get a good name in an area and be recruited directly.

A bad/inexperienced perl coder can do a fair bit of damage on a team.

>
> This is very speculative thinking on my part, just wanted to have a
> quick "straw poll" as to what is going on out there.
>
> cheers
>
> D