Re: What is your opinion in Perl Certified Professional?

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Re^2: What is your opinion in Perl Certified Professional? by cog (Parson) on Apr 30, 2005 at 14:56 UTC
While OTOH very good hackers might not have the financial capability to afford such a certificate. That's the problem with certification. Not the only one, of course, but one of the main ones. IMO, work in the community is far better to show than a Perl Certification Diploma or something. Go for CPAN modules. It's cheaper.	[reply]
Re^3: What is your opinion in Perl Certified Professional? by cog (Parson) on Apr 30, 2005 at 15:05 UTC
Go for CPAN modules. It's cheaper. Or, if you have the money, go for training with a well trusted/known company/hacker.	[reply]
Re^2: What is your opinion in Perl Certified Professional? by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 01, 2005 at 18:00 UTC
People who have certificates tend to be talentless hacks who can solve every problem except a novel one. Or they are working, or want to work for, industries and organisations that take certification seriously - for good or bad reasons. It's just a big a mistake to discard somebody because they have certification as it is to discard somebody because they don't.	[reply]
Re^3: What is your opinion in Perl Certified Professional? by skyknight (Hermit) on May 03, 2005 at 17:13 UTC
Fair enough... I wish to amend my statement to "people who make a big deal out of certificates tend to be talentless hacks who can solve every problem except a novel one."	[reply]