I have often noticed HR terms such as junior and senior-level programmer. Is the difference that they both know the language completely but one has more experience?

Or would you say that the difference is that one understand all parts of Perl but object-orientation? My feeling is that there really can't be anything such thing as a Junior programmer in Perl. Any such individual is safer called a "Cargo-cult programmer" or "cut-and-paste-programmer" and by-and-large you spend more time fixing their code than you would if you just wrote the code from scratch.

Also, I think there is a serious difference between a software developer and a software designer. To date, due to the nature of the job market, I have been forced to be both designer and programmer.

I have bought a few books on Design Patterns and OO Modeling, but I really never feel comfortable with the software architectures I create.

Currently, I am working for a dot-com which has hired out a major software architecture design firm to actually build the site. This is cool because they already have a framework for the Perl code I have to write --- I just have to write it.

In reply to What is a Junior Perl Programmer? by princepawn

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