> Indeed. Keeping Perl as an island of elitism, which certification > would threaten to obviate, is a self-serving, self-aggrandizing, > self-preservative instinct at its finest. Caveat being that when Perl
I think that certification would actually _increase_ the barriers to learning and using Perl, not decrease them. Certification, even for things which were in the past usually self taught such as Linux administration, etc. tends to be expensive and time-consuming, at best and completely worthless at worst (A+, anyone?). Managers, if there's a certification available, expect you to have it in many cases. As it stands now, any sysadmin, hacker or other person who cares can pick up a copy of the camel book, start noodling on CPAN and be competent at a minimal level in a week or two. Add a "standard" certification into the mix, wait 3 years, and how many of them will forgo it or use something else rather than expend the time and energy necessary to be a "real Perl programmer"? Me, I'd rather learn something because it's a good tool, not because it'll help me check the tickyboxes. - Kate (who's going back to lurking now.) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
