> Because I guarantee that whatever language and toolset you are using now, you'll need to be able to switch at some point in your career.
Yeah, but the motivation to learn Perl 5 as your next language is about as wise as learning COBOL as your next language.
That's probably why parent is finding it hard to get his developers to work on it - lots of effort for negative gain[1]. Anyone wanting to learn Perl 5 in 2023, for no additional money, is probably legitimately crazy.
I don't understand why you don't see the problem that parent has - no one wants to learn Perl 5 because it is a dead-end, and takes up energy that would otherwise be spent moving your career forward.
[1] The opportunity cost is immense - the time used to learn Perl 5 enough to maintain the legacy code is time that could have been used to learn a current language that results in a payoff.
Yeah, but the motivation to learn Perl 5 as your next language is about as wise as learning COBOL as your next language.
That's probably why parent is finding it hard to get his developers to work on it - lots of effort for negative gain[1]. Anyone wanting to learn Perl 5 in 2023, for no additional money, is probably legitimately crazy.
I don't understand why you don't see the problem that parent has - no one wants to learn Perl 5 because it is a dead-end, and takes up energy that would otherwise be spent moving your career forward.
[1] The opportunity cost is immense - the time used to learn Perl 5 enough to maintain the legacy code is time that could have been used to learn a current language that results in a payoff.