Shlomo Said: >> I have to disagree with you on this point. The general demand for >> programmers is usually for C++, C#, Java. Why would a future candidate >> waste his time on some bizarre language, instead of focusing on more >> probable career paths? Or are you expecting him to learn Perl especially >> for your opening? > >I'm not sure that building a career based on a programming >language is a good idea. >A programming language is just one tool, not the full >arsenal of tools.
We are talking about whether or not companies that need Perl programmers should expect Perl knowledge beforehand. >> In my opinion, companies that need Perl programmers should understand >> that they also need to train them. And it's not such a hard task >> because, like you said, good programmer should be able to pick up Perl, >> using a good book, in about a week. > >This should equally apply for any other programming language >and technology, no? How many C courses are there in the >industry, compared to Perl courses? Why? Look in the ads. Here on the list, there are four opening for programmers, two contractor works and one student opening. And that's country-wide. How many C opening are there? How many C++? Java? C#? Live with that. Train people by your own. That my whole point. >> I consider Perl as a scam to sell books. So we disagree on this point >> too. :-) > >I think that you can do fairly well with the perldoc >documentation. If you want books, you have those too. >Scam or no scam -- the fact remains that there are quite a >few good Perl books our there. When I was trying to embed Perl, I read *all* the perldoc pages. Twice. I only made progress when I dag inside modperl's source code. After that, when I made a working example, I returned to the perldoc, and discovered that the information was there, it just can't be understood by it's own. Of course, there is a book, 'Extending and Embedding Perl'. Shmuel. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
