FYI.. some thoughts on Perl Certification by Larry
(http://lwn.net/2001/features/LarryWall/)
CL: Some people seem to see the need for Perl certification. What do you think?
LW: I think someone else can do that :-) I'm not going to tell people whether
they're certified or not. My approach to language design has always been that
people should learn just enough of the languages to get their jobs done. They
shouldn't have to learn the whole language to begin with. But with
certification, you have to be learning the whole language. Some people feel
more comfortable that way. I guess if you want to hire experts, you want to
make sure they're experts. Certification is useful for that.
But most of the programming out there is not done by Perl experts. It's mostly
done by Perl novices, and they sometimes make sloppy programs, that's ok. They
learn by experience to do better over time and eventually they become experts
and then, if they want to get certified and somebody wants to certify them,
that's fine. I just don't want to do that myself.
Cheers,
Kevin
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:53:02PM -0000, Sanchit Bhatnagar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
spew-ed forth:
> Hi,
> Is there something like a "Perl Certified Professional" or does there exists some
>other credible certification you can get for perl.
>
> Also can someone please provide me help and/or links which have tutorials (maybe a
>single para) on the perl's function "map" and "grep".
>
> thanks,
> san.
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