On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote: I seem to have trouble accepting every one of your "facts":
> 1. Workplaces don't give their workers adequate conditions. Either the pay is > too low, but often the other conditions are bad - overworking them, not > enough (or even non-existent) snacks, bad co-workers, unrealistic schedules, > bad software management, too few paid vacation days, etc. Is this a fact? I disagree. Sure, there are places like that. But not all workplaces are as you describe. Moreover, the more you are an attractive employee, the more the company will (probably) invest in you. > 2. Workplaces cannot recognise good workers when they see them, or let them > get lost in confusion, bureacuracy or politics (happened to me many times), > and are too clueless to know how to keep them, and that they should in fact > do their best to keep them. That may be sometimes true. There's a lot that an employee can do in order to play the game correctly. It requires some social skills, though and some experience too. > 3. Workplaces want their programmers to know Perl (or whatever) yesterday, > instead of training bright and intelligent ones, and expecting them to grow. > 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. A good programmer should be able to pick up Perl (or any other programming language) independently. I don't get your complaint here. And regarding issue number 4: Perl has quite good documentation, and literature, in my opinion. It is also fairly easy to get the list of "must read" according to your level in Perl. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
