the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

[Adrian Howard]

On 7 Aug 2006, at 14:56, Peter Corlett wrote:
[snip]
> Because a lot of employers seem to believe that universities are  
> there to
> provide pretrained staff. Hence they tend to migrate to Java,  
> because that's
> what the universities use as a teaching language.
[snip]

Anybody else old enough to remember when the same sort of thing  
happened with Pascal?

:-)

Adrian