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Do other people have much experience cross-training people? I am struggling to find decent Senior Perl developers at the moment in London. I am open to the idea of hiring a Senior X Dev and cross-training them ... I'm just not sure how well it'd work out.

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I would rather have a wise and experienced developer X than a developer with Y experience in Z.

As long as you are hiring people with skills in solving similar problems to the ones you are having or are anticipating on having.

Edit: However that may not work for you. I think that a senior Perl developer would be more than competent in any language you point towards. While the opposite may hardly hold true. The presumption is that one believes that a senior Perl developer really exists.

There are some really good perl coders that are not working with perl because its hard to get a perl job. This situation happens in brasil. Consider telecomute =)

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