Bharucha, Nikhil wrote: --- snip --- PERL is kind of a jack-of-all trades language. It is a scripting language. In business environments (where certification means something) PERL is not the primary development language at the Enterprise level. It is an extremely versatile "Tool" to get small and medium sized jobs done and done right.
Certification? If you want to get certified get J2EE Certification. Know PERL to use PERL. PERL as a primary skill at the business level is not a good idea, but as an integral part of your skill set YES. At my place of employment we use PERL to get the misc jobs done (and the crap still left around from the 90's internet boom -- still works pretty good though!) --- snip --- Not to start the "certification" wars, but Perl can also be object oriented and can be used as more than a "tool", and more than a scripting language. Search the threads and you will find people using perl for developing true GUI apps and full-scale OO enterprise apps. I personally worked for a company that had five full-time perl developers, working with hundreds of thousands of lines of code developing an derivatives trading platform. Perl has the flexibility of extreme scalability. I have seen plenty of cases where I did at a command prompt what would take a hundred lines of VB code. To be able to do that effectively, you have to be skilled with perl, just as if you were to write a large OO application. That does not mean that certification is required to weed out the good from the bad programmers. With other languages, like VB, you often have situations where non-techs hire techs, such as a non-technical project manager or a smaller operation with only one person who is programmer/net engineer, SA and DBA. Certification helps the non-technical people have some sort of validation that the person being interviewed has some sort of knowledge of the language (even if the validation is always accurate, there is at least a piece of mind knowing they are certified). That scenario rarely, if ever, exists for perl. I do agree that perl is usually not the primary development language. However, join some OO perl groups and you will find out that there is a whole world of perl out there that is significantly beyond those who use it just as a tool. And those are the people who would really benefit from certification. -- Chris Snyder BTW, we gave any potential perl developers tests, which are a lot more accurate than the "Pass/Fail" of certification. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
