Note that there also isn't a big sign saying that XP == programmer quality. This isn't a certification institute, which should be very obvious even if you come here for the first time.

Being a monk means that you spend some time in the perlmonks community. I would consider that a plus if I was hiring a programmer, the actual level isn't all that interesting. I'd be more interested in the kind of nodes that person wrote.

People who don't know perlmonks should know better than to infer some kind of quality from the XP level here. People who *do* know perlmonks should too.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^4: Zen and the art of ignoring XP by Joost
in thread Zen and the art of ignoring XP by DaWolf

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