in reply to What do you do for living?

I'm one of those few privileged developers that has written specifically Perl for a living for over 5 years. My current employer is very OSS-aware and expects us to work on OSS projects when we don't have a specific work-related task.

That said, I don't only program in Perl. In my job, I actually program in at least 4 different languages, and up to 6-7 depending on how you define "language".

While not all are Turing-complete, they all require the same amount of dedication to master.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: What do you do for living?
by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Mar 08, 2006 at 07:28 UTC
    Diddo less pdf. Don't have to work with them.

    I'm moving a company that sells a web service to auto-dealers, off of the Microsoft line entirely. "Our" site was made with an WYSIWYG editor and I'm currently upgrading the asp in place to new optimized ASP with valid XHTML/CSS just to rewrite it all over again in a major reivision adding new features. The major revision uses Postgres, mod_perl and Mason. Horrah. The sales manger is currently undergoing an in house alpha-test. I plan to have the first mod_perl/postgres/linux version rolled out in 4months.


    Evan Carroll
    www.EvanCarroll.com
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