Neither perl nor python are very popular for large application development, even on unix. So there isn't much demand.
This may be changing. I've been interviewing with two companies recently, and they both either use, or plan to use Python for a major application. On one hand, the first company sells a Windows Server 2003 box with MS SQL 2005 and Python for the backend to their app. The client software? C# and
.NET. The second company is selling a server running Fedora Core 4 and PostgreSQL, with C++ as the main language. However, they have began to recognize productivity problems, and are therefore planning to wrap their C++ core in Python or some other Very High Level Language (VHLL). Get used to it folks. In the future, most software will be written in a VHLL, with a few performance critical sections ported to something like C++ or C#. Sound familiar? Thats what people used to use assembly for.
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