Re^2: Where are all the Perl programmers?

[perrin]

All of the best people we found were through jobs.perl.org. People who look there tend to be more clueful. This is less true if what you want is a C guy who knows some Perl, or something similar where paying attention to CPAN and the like is less important.

I seriously doubt you'd have better luck with Python. The pool is a lot smaller, although it may be that you can hire from the Java pool more easily that way.