Ever since the release of Perl, software professionals are finding it difficult to choose whether to pursue it as a field of expertise or not. Perl is not officially declared an acronym but because of most of its uses, it stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.
There are different roles and responsibilities of a Perl Programmer in today’s industry. In 2014, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the annual salary of Perl Programmers ranges from $44,000 to $128,000. Although this is one of the highly paid career profiles with lots of easily learning attributes to choose as a career, there are various cons as well.
Let us have a look at few pros and cons of Perl programming:
Pros: * Highly or paid professionals with average median annual salary of $78,000 approximately in 2014. * Perl is an open source language. So system software and training are available for free. * Troubleshooting support features for Perl is widely accessible from online community. * A degree in associate level and substantial expertise in this programming is an adequate qualification for an individual to crack a job. * Extremely powerful programming language with procedural, functional and object oriented approach. * Highly versatile and matured language. * One of the best multipurpose language.
Cons: * There is no standardized qualification for Perl expertise. * Users must follow the updates and continually learn them for its flexible features. * It is neither portable nor does it carries interpreter shells. * Object oriented functionalities are not implemented well.
SpringPeople being one of the authorized training partners of Perl, brings hands on lab driven training in the programming language for users, programmers and system administrators. Post training, the participants will have a very good command over this widely used programming language.
The other course,Perl Deep Dive (an advanced training in Perl programming) will help the candidates fully utilize Perl’s object oriented features, extend Perl with C/C++, interact with databases and many more. The duration for this course is 4 days and the suggested audiences are application developers, network designers and software developers. They must have a prior experience in using Perl.
