in reply to Market Stupid to Understand Perl

thanks guys.
monarch, I think I agree with you more I have to improve my
customer/manager relations skills rather than my technical skills.

Yep the world is more marketive than technical.

imp, I like the perlguts, will have to go thru that atleast for perl hobbie reason.
actually oracle's ADE(cvs equivalent) has been developed in OOPerl.

Perl should be scriptive and at the max in libraries/modules.

If it goes into OOPs. it's really oops!!.
Big headache trying people/newcomers not to crypt the code and be over imaginative.

Perl has made easy things easy, shouldn't
that luxury be some how be improved with current/new
programming methodologies ( or frameworks as they say).

Refactoring and Comments!! what other language can make this easy, and keep code in managable limits?
CPAN has helped a lot that way.
But hard to find managers to accept that.

perrin, Yep relocation is one thing i can't handle with my new kid otherwise you're right.

On my saga to decide my life I guess perl will always be my hobby and coding my life style.

Thanks to your comments which enlightened me in the
right path.
...that one day, If ever, I will be able to appreciate a job as much as i do Perl.

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Re^2: Market Stupid to Understand Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2006 at 15:16 UTC
    You might consider learning English, too. It's a more valuable skill than Perl, in general.
      There's no need to be rude about it.

      That said, you do have a point. Being an effective member of a team requires effective communication, and investing some of your efforts in improving your communication skills will do a lot for your career.

      The original poster's skill with English is enough to get the point across.. but in business that is not enough. You need to be able to sell yourself, and to express your ideas in a way that convinces others. Perhaps a course on technical writing would help.

      It's one of the things on my personal todo list.

        There's no need to be rude about it.

        I'm not. I'm stating facts. Learning to read, write, and talk is a basic social obligation that all six year olds can manage. If he's unwilling to learn to do that, there's no reason to treat him like an adult.

        The original poster's skill with English is enough to get the point across

        No, it's not. I don't even know for sure what the title of his mediation means. Even if I ask him to explain, there's no guarantee I'll understand his explanation. He's not literate. He needs to fix that.