On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 07:54, Kate Wood wrote: > [...] the barriers to learning and using Perl [...] > Managers, [...] expect you to have [available certification]
You do realize that those are orthoganal, right? What's more, I GUARANTEE you that I could go learn Java (for which there is a strong certification program), not get certified and get a job within 5 weeks. This is because I have a significant amount of relevant job experience, regardless of the language I'm programming in. What you're describing is a situation where it would become costly to break into the _professional_ Perl programming world as a _novice_ programmer. This is true, and that's just the way mature languages are... more and more people start looking for employees with some indication that they've been using the language for a long time. Try being a novice programmer breaking into the world of C++! Wow, there's a hard thing to do! And yet, C++ continues to thrive. Side note: If you're looking to break into programming, start contributing to open source projects. There's nothing more valuable than saying, "well, I might not be certified, but I did write the software that runs your company." _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
