The BBC is bigger than just the online devs. In news we still have a fair amount of perl, mainly in Nagios checks and other bits of monitoring, but pretty much any news package you see coming in from abroad, and many in the UK, passes through a system with critical perl elements (JFE and davina). PHP is more prevalent for more recent developments - Raven is PHp for example - anything you see edited for the party conferences is recorded and edited on Ravens, whenever you watch Asia Business Report every clip you see is played out of Raven, as are the graphics running on the screens in the studios. The lower third graphics on ABR are casparcg loading templates that are ttraditional perl cgi (mainly just to insert various variables). The news archiving system in bureaus has a perl front end, as does the web part of the video production system. Our offline captioning system (webcap) is perl, and the standard ubuntu build we use on c. 1200 machines has a lot of perl tweaks to configure and monitor.
These are critical systems, but we don't have the resources of online/fmt/digital/whatever, of all those systems only Raven gets any active development (about 2 man months a year), we just don't have the manpower or the time, so don't expect to find a job wanting perl though :)
These are critical systems, but we don't have the resources of online/fmt/digital/whatever, of all those systems only Raven gets any active development (about 2 man months a year), we just don't have the manpower or the time, so don't expect to find a job wanting perl though :)