Based on .. what?

Perl is quite well accepted at a variety of businesses -- although it's open source, there is support, especially if you have a couple of decent Perl developers on hand. It's also possible to hire bright people and train them to develop in Perl.

I believe certification is probably favoured more by the HR folks -- it gives them something easily quantifiable. The technical managers don't care so much; or at least (heh) that's my opinion. Likewise which university (if any) someone went to. I went to a great school, but I also graduated a while ago. But get me into an interview situation, and I get really excited to have the opportunity to talk about some lovely complicated thing that I developed recently.

I think bright, enthusiastic (or passionate) and gets things done are pre-requisites for a decent software developer -- some certification means almost nothing.

Why?

Is funding that badly needed that we need to lower ourselves to organizing certification? Why even connect the two? If we need funding, go out and get it -- no need to tie it to certification (something that I find unnecessary in any case).

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re^3: Perl Certification by talexb
in thread Perl Certification by cosmicperl

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