From my experience, companies that want Perl programmers are mostly big ones
with plenty of inertia, that have some legacy build code slapped together
years ago by a clueless guy that thought he can write Perl (though he really
couldn&#x27;t), then extended by Java-only or C++-only programmers, so it now
stinks heavily and can&#x27;t be replaced or rewritten (because of inertia).<p>Sad thing, given that I do like Perl. But it may be just my surroundings.