 Are you wasting time learning Pearl programming in 2020? Well, you reached the right video. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by Diginic Academy, your number one source to learn how to make money programming and get that six-figure salary you desire. Our Academy have a wide range of courses, including 3K in 30 days, our mentorship membership program, and much, much more. When you sign up for our free community, you get access to our membership community with like-minded professionals who's gonna help take your career to the next level. So let's take the first step to get started and really take your career to the next level with our seven-step money guide today. So let's go ahead and click the link below to sign up for our free seven-step guide to help you get your career started today. So guys, learning a legacy programming language like Pearl is not always a bad thing. It's not always that you can't find a job or it's a bad programming language to learn. It really come down to the market and what the use case is for that particular programming language. Let's stick with Pearl since we're there. Pearl has been around for over 25 years, probably a more 30 now, and it's still used pretty heavily by some organizations. Primary problem is trying to use that same programming language across multiple companies in the market. That's where learning a newer programming language for a much more used programming language like Java, which Java's been around just as long, maybe 20 plus years, but it's still used on a heavy basis and have corporate backing guys. But I have a couple of factors that I wanna cover. But guys, before I get started, really wanted to talk about some of the things that got me to the point that I am in now, as far as just which programming language is used, why Pearl suck and really trying to get you guys a better understanding about picking a programming language. I think that particular topic is way, way, way, way overused and people just use all these parameters to find out which the best programming language, but nobody ever looks at their local job market. And the reason I say local is because each region have a specific programming language that they use. So where I wanna live and where you wanna live, it could be totally separate markets. That's why I'm not a huge fan of giving you guys a blanket one programming language to use all the time. So let's stick with Pearl. Well, when I was coming out of college, COBOL was the big thing. That's what they taught at least at Mississippi State. Everybody in the entire program, that's what they geared their criteria off COBOL, which at the time was still, it's outdated today, it's still outdated, still outdated back then, but they didn't wanna change that curriculum and that's basically what it is. Immediately after I got out of college, I didn't have job prospects specifically on COBOL, but I took those fundamentals and really used that to get into the SQLs and the C-sharps of the world and really made my mark as far as just being a developer to where my career is today. You guys need to do the same thing. The good news about colleges today, I think they're leaning more towards Python, but again, let's talk about Pearl. Some of you guys have learned Pearl and you're in the same exact situation that I was in. You're trying to figure out how you can leverage your Pearl knowledge so that you can get that Pearl job and really trying to take your career to the next level using Pearl. First of all, guys, it's gonna be an uphill battle. I got at least 12 factors here that's gonna really help you position your Pearl skills so that you can get a job and don't make it sucks as much. Disclaimer, if you haven't learned Pearl yet and you're using this video to decide if you wanna learn Pearl, do not learn Pearl. Check your local job market first and if you have at least four or five major, the biggest companies in your region that do Pearl development, then yes, but I would be shocked if anybody have five of the biggest companies in their city, major city that use Pearl as its primary program link. I'd be very shocked, but if you are that small few, then yes, but if you're just trying to figure out, hey, should I learn Pearl as a secondary or third language to add my arsenal and give you some factors to really determine that here, guys. So number one, are you learning Pearl for a hobby or for a profession? If you're just doing this for a hobby, turn this video off, stick to what you're doing because you're gonna pick the right spot as far as just, well, first of all, hobbies, you dictate what you wanna learn. So go ahead and learn it. But if you form a professional side, you wanna make money doing this, you wanna position yourself to have a long lasting career, then I would say probably not unless you have those top five companies being primarily Pearl. Well, even if it's secondary, I wouldn't be too hard on you, but I'm pretty confident that you got other programming languages like Java, C-sharp, Python that's probably gonna most of the time win out in front of Pearl. That brings me to my next point. It doesn't have a niche purpose that gives it an advantage in the marketplace. Let me explain. Python is different, guys, because you gotta understand what Python is used for data science. It's putting a lot of legacy programming languages out of business because of the easy right case and it's learned, it got a huge community, it's modern, and a lot of people like to use it. In the data science world, AI, all that have a specific use case that other programming languages have, but it's tailored more towards that. C-sharp and Java in the enterprise where you get into these major enterprises who want a programming language that's solid, that's been around, that's stable. It may not be the best when it comes to right time or read time, but it's there and it's solid and they can use it across their organization and feel confident that it works. Python, C-sharp, even PHP to a certain extent with the web development, JavaScript with the front end, React and all that stuff have a unique advantage in the marketplace. Pearl used to have this earlier on until programming languages like Python and other languages come along and start chipping away at those advantages. That's one reason why our pearl is falling. The competition guys competitors. Python is just Python or pearl. If you're a brand new company, go with Python. If you're a legacy company, just trying to maintain legacy pearl code, then do that. I'm not gonna knock you for that, but the minute you have an opportunity to expand or change that core system, it's probably gonna go to another programming language. That's why I tell you guys legacy code, you can get a job working on legacy code, but the minute they decide to switch to something more modern, you better be willing to switch and get your skills on the right track. Job demand, guys. This is a huge one. Yeah, their demand for software developers, but if you have a specific skill like pearl or Python, it puts you on the top of the list. Not to say you can't get a job, but you wanna put yourself in the best position to be a no-brainer for the company. Being a pearl developer unless you have a company that have a legacy pearl system, yeah, you'll be on top of that, but the rest of the companies, no, you will not. They're gonna see you as having older knowledge, not necessarily modern. This is very important to you guys, especially for your older age developers. It's very important that they perceive you as somebody who wanna learn technology and gonna move their company forward with software development and programming languages. Having pearl on there kinda communicates your night. Number five, the age. Perceived age, this has been around 30 plus years. Again, Java's been around just as long almost, but it's just the use case, guys. Pearl has not aged well. Number six, the learning curve is actually not that bad compared to other programming languages. It's just one of those things where the community, well, I'll get to more of the other ones in a second here, but the learning curve is not that bad, but it's just one of those things where the cons outweigh the pros on this one. Right time, read time is average, guys. It's not just super fast compared to C, but the right time is just don't blow you away like a Python, so it's about average, I'll do that. The growth, there's no growth, guys. This is one of the main reasons why it not really moving forward because of the growth that's just not there. You got Python, other program languages chipping away at the market demand for new programming projects, and Python, Pearl is just not gonna cut it. Oh, the community, it has a decent size community. The community's solid, but still, guys. Dying languages, all the legacy code out there is probably not an active community. It's probably a community of people who've used Pearl in some point of their career, but may not necessarily use that as a primary language now. So you gotta understand that part of it, too. No corporate backing, guys. This is a huge one. This is what keeps Java and Pearl so far apart as far as just the corporate backing. You got Oracle, you got a lot of other major corporations who use the Java and the same Microsoft C-Sharp. Pearl do not have any corporate backing that I'm aware of, if so, comment below. No popular programming languages are modern software packages that are written in Pearl, you know? Maybe there are some out there. You guys comment below, let me know what I'm missing, but I'm talking about the Adobe's top software applications and enterprises, I'm not sure of anything that's in 2020 written in Pearl. And last but not least, the salaries average, guys. Salaries just average, you know, it's within the lines of a standard programmer. It's not gonna blow you away. That's just give you another reason just to go with a more modern programming language because it's gonna give you options as far as just growth in the future. And guys, I just wanna cover this and let you guys know, again, if you're doing this for a hobby, continue learning Pearl. But for my professional standpoint, you just getting started as a beginner, go with another programming language. I would start with something, me, I'm a SQL developer, so I use SQL, but some of you guys can use Python, C-sharp, Java, even PHP, JavaScript, somewhere along that line. And I wouldn't necessarily pick Pearl, wouldn't be my best, my first option. But if I'm a legacy program, I've been using Pearl for years, I'm pretty solid, I got a network, I know other companies who utilize Pearl, no problem with that either, just know that, hey, I might be in a situation where I might not be able to find a job as fast as a modern programming language guy. So if you like to comment, if you like to content, comment below. Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Comment below. Like, subscribe to the content guys. Go check out my seven step guide if you haven't already, links are below. And if you already signed up for my seven step guide, go ahead and check out some of my premium courses guys. I really want to position guys to be a developer, really take your skills to the next level. 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