I've found myself browsing through job listings off and on, as I tend to do when things start getting downright silly at my employ. While I find Perl to be an amazing, useful, and fast tool, not many people agree with me. The reasons for this vary wildly, but I've found it comes from misconceptions on readability and speed of development. Usually, amateur developers ruin it for everyone.
I suppose that's why I have such a low opinion of the C# / ASP.NET platform.
This reality, though, makes me realize that I should probably expand my horizons a bit into other languages. I just don't know where. There are development packages that I admire in some ways. Those who have worked with me know my obsession with the WebObjects development platform. It rests on Java, but provides a pluggable architecture to create a database aware MVC application in a short amount of time. There's also a myriad of ASP.NET solutions, a lot of PHP out there, and various permutations of other Java platforms.
I'm not sure where to go. I've elected not to waste too much of my time with Catalyst until the developers finally create some type of unified base and documentation system. As elegant and neat as Catalyst on Perl is, the developers change their minds more often than I do. I've resigned to the idea that I should probably learn Java .. I have no idea where or how to start.
If only I could get paid to learn Java...
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