Perl is dead

[Ovid]

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> according to the info on the site, perl skills offer higher rates than
> most of the "top 20" skills.

Consider economics.  If it's true that their are fewer Perl programmers (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/38018) but we still need them to maintain code, the remaining programmers have to be paid more.

Or maybe management knows that we're more productive so they pay us more (*giggle*)

Cheers,

Ovid 
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