Should we hire someone who writes C in Perl? [closed]

Answer 1

I would argue writing C in Perl is a much better situation than writing Perl in C. As is often brought up on the SO podcast, understanding C is a virtue that not all developers (even some good ones) have nowadays. Hire them and buy a copy of Perl Best Practices for them and you will be set. After best practices a copy of Intermediate Perl and they could work out.