On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:33:09PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now, I don't want to get into the argument of whether of not
> certifications suck. I think we all realise that certification schemes
> measure the trainee's ability to pass a multichoice test, no more, no
> less.
>
> However, if there *were* to be a Perl certification, I'd want the Perl
> community to be the people developing it. So, this is a call for
> interest in an LPI-style Perl certification program.
Not that this is helpful to a discussion about certifying perl programmers,
but mention of certification and perl in the same sentence makes me think of
this bit of the perl faq:
=head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Certainly not. Larry expects that he'll be certified before Perl is.
Nicholas Clark