> 3. Workplaces want their programmers to know Perl (or whatever) yesterday, > instead of training bright and intelligent ones, and expecting them to grow.
I personally don't believe in formal frontal training, although i still do it from time to time, both as a student and as the lecturer. I was lucky to be in workplaces that let me train myself the necessary Perl skills. > Now Perl does not have a hype machine, and actually got a lot of negative > FUD, so few programmers seem to learn it now not as part of their jobs. I successfully dismissed anti-Perl FUD several times by showing my bosses that Perl is a language for getting my job done, without talking too much about it. > 4. The online Perl resources are often inadequate for pointing someone who's > interested in learning the language into the right direction. Maybe it's just me, but i totally LOVED the organization of perl(perl|re|func|data|syn|yadda) manpages. I find it very intuitive and easy to use, and also easy to explain, although i'm not completely sure that it's easy for everyone to understand ;) > See for example: > > http://www.sparkthis.com/2006/02/slides_the_hack.html Link to PDF seems to be 404 :( I emailed the guy. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
