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Russ No such thing as a small change  Comment on  In comparison
to java, dot net and php, there are much less perl programmers
in china.  You also have to take into consideration that a large
percentage, if not the majority of programming jobs are coming
from out-sourcing initiatives in the West. Therefore they are
coming from corporations and therefore must adhere to the code
standards of those corporations, which increasingly lean towards
Java and .Net with regards to programming mono-culture.  The
justification for such being that they don't have enough people
with the skill-sets required to support code developed in
multiple programming languages - which is a self-fulfilling
prophecy when they continue to cut jobs of on-shore programmers
in favor of the off-shore folks.  The obvious disadvantage there
is that it promotes a naive one-size-fits-all mentality with
regards to programming languages and the problems they are used
to solve. This also