In article <0108211319110B.01230@rctos>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodney Clang) wrote:
> Sad to see this separation amongst ourselves. Some of us are businesspeople,
> PHB's, .... who also run a development staff and have the luxury to
> contribute to programming time as well.
Well, I hope you can learn from mine and others' viewpoints when you
handle your development staff, then. :)
Which reminds me of an article you may wish to read, How To Manage Geeks:
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/25/geeks.html
It touches on some of the issues I'm thinking of.
> Not sure if the following is relevant or has any value to the group, but as a
> businessman and manager in search, I don't "see" many success stories in the
> O'reilly list or even discussions within usenet regarding Perl's usage in
> traditional enterprise application development.
Try http://www.perl.com/. There's a bunch there, and they are always
looking for more. There's one there about the Swedish pension system,
another about Italy's top bank.
Though personally, I think Success Stories are overrated. If I know
Perl is good, then I will use it. I don't have anything against them, I
just don't find them very interesting from the perspective of "can Perl
do this?", because I know that Perl can do that.
> I am very comfortable with Perl from the perspective of the technical merits
> within the language. I have been writing Perl code for many years now and can
> attest to many of those features. What I'm unsure of is Perl in large
> application projects, etc.
Check the www.perl.com site.
> bounce someday, they need to be marketable. They are under the impression,
> right or wrong, that Java and VB worlds are far safer for one's career. To
> find a fulltime Perl programming job in Colorado is difficult. So, to spend
> 100% of their time in Perl development and lose their current edge in any
> other technology might not be in their best personal interest.
That is true with *any* language.
I think it is most correctly noted that being a *programmer* is safest
for one's career as a developer. No one should stick to one language if
this is their career path. If you know some C and some Java and excel
in Perl, you won't have much problem finding a job. If you know only
Java, well, you might get a job easily now, but maybe not a few years
from now.
> Perception is reality.
No, it isn't. The reality is that Perl is the #1 language used on the
web. The perception is that it is not used very much, or isn't very
imporant. I don't care about perception. I care about getting my job
done, and as long as I can demonstrate to my (?:potential)? employer
that I will get my job done, then I am set.
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