Open contracts

[Victoria Conlan (vicky@comps.org)]

> In particular I had a mail a couple of days ago from everyone's favourite "we 
> don't use Perl any more - it's all Java and PHP now" broadcaster. It was about 
> a Perl role.

Was it a permanent or contract role?  I spotted a senior perl person
job advertised today, about an hour after I'd had the "what's the future
now even iplayer are moving to java" conversation with my current boss.