Re: Useage of Perl up or down?

[John Porter]

Greg Crowder wrote:
> John Porter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled:
> 
> > Maybe it's because there's so many hackers in it, but it seems there's
> > a real anitipathy against CS types in the Perl community.  And frankly
> > I'm getting a little impatient with it.  CS majors are just hackers with
> > a eddication, in many cases, like mine.
> 
> speaking as someone who went to college, I'd have to take issue with
> the fact that your statement implies that autodidacts don't have
> an education.  

It was a figure of speech.  I *meant* (though I may have failed) to
refer to that same class of people Chris was referring to: those who
have been exposed to, and inculcated with, a bunch of ideas that are
regarded by some as perhaps academically pure, but of little value
in the real world.  Chris certainly didn't (nor did I) mean to suggest
that if you don't have a degree, you can't be a computer scientist.

-- 
John Porter