Re: Perl certification (was: Advertising Perl)

[John Porter]

Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
> [In] licensed professions...  You're forbidden by law
> from doctoring or lawyering without appropriate certification -- 
> 
>     If I were paying a contractor to build a bridge, I would want the
> chief engineer to be certified as understanding best common practices
> in bridge-building.  Moreover, I would want that certification to come
> from an organization that I believed to have no conflict of interest
> in handing out certifications (MCSE and CNE don't fit the no-conflict-
> of-interest criterion).  

Hmm. I think a major factor is that the certification issuer
has the power to revoke the cert.  That's how it maintains
its credibility.

I think this is essential.  We can say, "You can have the cert
by passing a test; but if you fsck up in the real world, you
lose it."

It would put an onus on employers to report evidence of incompetence.


-- 
John Porter