In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.
I feel that if people work toward a certification, they often end up
having a very limited skill set in the given technology. At least, it
seems that way; most of the time when I see people with certification in
some technology, they don't know much past what the certification exam
requires (if that much).
Certification has no inherent value, as we all agree. Some employers
may like to have it, but these are the same employers who want to
standardize the entire office on Microsoft products. Maybe it creates
an incentive for some people to learn more, but I would rather work with
people who create their own incentive, instead of a requiring an
illusory one. If someone is not interested in Perl, they won't learn it
just because there is a certification to be had; if they do, I don't
want anything to do with them in regard to Perl. Conversely, if someone
is interested in Perl but won't try to learn it just because there is no
certification to be had, then why should we spend much of our time on
them?
Anyway, we have collectively wasted hundreds of thousands of lines on
the idea of perl certification. If there's not a separate list for it,
there should be, IMO.
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