I have to laugh about this because it is so true. One of my old bosses was *very* impressed by this guy she wanted to hire that spent 7 years at NASA developing some sort of web app that he said contained over 30,000 lines of code in JAVA. When she showed me a link to it, to show me how *good* he was, I almost fell out of my chair laughing. She asked me why, and I said.. "One second" and proceeded to duplicate what he wrote in *10* lines of Perl. -In 2 minutes unfortunately, my fingers weren't very stable while I was laughing. Most of you I'm sure hate Microsoft, and some may hate Google, but you'll see that both of them have done research that proves that *1* good programmer is worth *200* or so "monkeys with a typewriter" (a great song if you are familiar with it). In my current Fortune 10 job my boss proved that I do more than *400* times the work of anyone else on my team and yet I have time to ask for additional work that's not required of me, and time to help other people in unrelated departments, and yet I still only work a 40 hour work week. My advice.. Less monkeys, more typewriters. Or if you don't like that one.. go with the tried and true.. "Too many cooks in the kitchen".

In reply to Re^2: Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers by Anonymous Monk
in thread Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers by aufflick

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