Is there such a niche?

[greg zegan]

 Python is making headways in everything today including and especially where Perl was and is.Networking for example.  Cisco has web pages where they are using it for SDN dev.
Perl is legacy, but worth knowing if you ask me.  In fact, the older programmers are retiring and unfortunatelydying off before they can transfer those valuable skills to the younger generations and Perl like Cobol is still inuse.  I have even thought of getting a certification in it for opening doors into the Open Source dev side more.
https://www.ciwcertified.com/ciw-certifications/web-development-series/perl-specialist

As Steve Jobs would say: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."  
    On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 09:24:13 AM MST, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:  
 
 Well, perl, like Java will always be useful. It might be in decline as in active number of GitHub projects, but like COBOL -- Perl will always be *somewhere* on a server. 

Thanks,
Alexander

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 09:10 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:


I created my first website in 2000 using PERL and what I think was an 
early version of MySQL.

Domains were $40 and hosting was around $25/mo or more.

For a while I've been reading that PERL is dead.  Is that not true?  A 
quick search shows PERL is in a decline.

Your Thoughts?


On 2022-04-06 08:54, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Bash +Perl, and a side of python will cover pretty much all of the
> above. and a number of PHP applications are commonly managed this way.
> popular because of its communication with MySQL
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:26 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bash is great, and when you can call almost any other script from
>> within it (including some python utilities) you can do some amazing
>> things.
>> Phil W
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:34 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Its all I use right now for dev projects
>>> Learned some stuff today on bash that was really cool.
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 07:23:11 PM MST, Keith Smith via
>>> PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm a PHP developer.
>>> 
>>> I've always liked Linux.  Bought a box set of RedHat, what I think
>>> was
>>> 
>>> version 4.2 around 97 or 98.
>>> 
>>> Programming has always been the dominate part of Linux and PHP.
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering if there is any value in making Linux the dominate
>>> partner
>>> 
>>> and programming the support partner.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
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