On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > 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. >
Perhaps "training" was a mis-phrasing on my part. It naturally includes self-training or other forms of education. Or training by co-workers. > > 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. True. Of course, right now I find that often Perl is the right langauge for me to use, not because it is the most suitable language for that in the world, but because I've invested a lot of time knowing it, and because of CPAN and other code that I can make use of. If I start programming in Python, Ruby, PHP or a different dynamic language, then writing code will be done with much less fluency and straight-forwardness, and I may find myself re-implementing many CPAN modules. That and handling obscure errors generated by the compiler will take more time. > > > 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 ;) > I wasn't talking about them. I was talking about the online sites - http://perl.com/ , http://perl.org/ , http://learn.perl.org/ , etc. > > See for example: > > > > http://www.sparkthis.com/2006/02/slides_the_hack.html > > Link to PDF seems to be 404 :( > Sorry to hear that. :-) Sic Transit Gloria of various Web Resources. It's temporarily available here: http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/text/ > I emailed the guy. Thanks. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
