John Saylor said:
> hi
>
> ( 05.02.25 16:56 -0500 ) James Linden Rose, III:
>> Certification for Perl will certainly NOT raise the intellectual bar
>> of its practitioners, but it will certainly make many more people into
>> converts on both the programmer and the manager side of the equation.
>
> converts to what- perl or certification?
converts to using perl on a project.
i.e. getting the Manager to get behind the decision to use perl on the project
rather than some other language.
>> I think that would benefit Perl, but I don't see that it will benefit
>> the currently standing group of monger gurus.
>
> well, what kind of a [perl] monger guru are you thinking of? wouldn't a
> guru want to increase the benefits in and around perl programming
> practice?
I would think so.
>From a game-theory point of view, I think certification is an overall win.
The worst case scenario for certification would be that gurus have to
get their manager to pay for them to take the test.
The worst case scenario for no certification would be that perl gets
replaced with some other language that has more programmers.
Would you rather go through the trouble of taking a test to keep
programming in perl? Or would you rather there be no perl jobs at all?
Greg
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