On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:47:11AM -0400, Sidharth Malhotra wrote:
> What about some sort of Perl Certification. I feel that if people seeking
> computer skills found a certifacation to work towards it would help.
Dominus used to give out Perl certificates. Can't remember whether it
was free or whether you had to pay a dollar. No, no test.
> Althoguh it is generally known that having a PAUSE id is as perl certified
> as you get (as well as coding html template and dbi abstraction layer
> modules) but who outside the perl community cares about that?
Well, who *inside* the Perl community cares? Since any doofus that can
point and click on a webpage can get a PAUSE (and CPAN) id and upload
a bazillion files, it's as meaningless as Dominus' certificates.
And it's generally believed in the Perl community that certificates
are not useful, and hardly worth the paper they are printed on.
Not to mention that Larry doesn't want Perl itself to be certified.
The Perl community doesn't *like* environments where they are big on
certification. So, my question is, what does Perl have to gain to
have Perl Certification?
Abigail
