Meet Paula. She’s 20 years old and a sophomore majoring in computer science. Paula loves to code and recently came across a language called Perl.  She would like to learn Perl, but is unsure how to move forward. She checks out a few books, tries to find a few articles on Perl (has a bit of a tough time on it, as Perl developers don’t blog as much) and gets a better grip on it. She learns about Perl 5 and Perl 6, about the Perl Mongers about the community. She’s ready to ...

The 2017 Perl Developer Survey has come to an end. We conducted the survey over 38 days, from the 7th of March to the 14th of April.  We have received 849 responses from developers from all over the world. This was the largest Perl survey in recent years and it showed quite a few interesting trends for the language itself, but even more about the developers that are using it. These are statistics that show the state of Perl in 2017. Here are the highlights: Only 3 ...

We carry on with the sequel of the Perl Developer Survey results. Have a look or check out Part 1  first.  Q16  Have you ever followed a TDD approach to development?  

A one point or another in your career you probably worked on legacy code. It brings chills through every programmer’s spine, it creates nightmares and cold sweats in the night. Basically it’s a term that has a very bad reputation. But what does it actually mean? The definition: Technopedia refers to legacy code as: “an application system source c ...

Do you plan to attend any Perl conferences or events this year? Well, if you are, here are a few recommendations. First of all we have to go through the two major (yearly) Perl conferences, both formerly known as YAPC (EU and NA) The Perl Conference Amsterdam The EU Perl Conference is in Amsterdam this year and the theme is “High-end Perl”. It will take place from August ...

One of the questions that we had in the Perl Developer Survey 2017 was about the size of the company that the respondents work for. This was meant to help paint a clearer picture on where  Perl is used. Large and very large companies came ahead, with 25.6% of respondents choosing the 100-1000 section and 30.5% of respondents going with the 1000+ option. We’re going to present companies in both categories. Grant Street Group Based in Pittsburgh, ...