There's also the effort of memorizing a littany of new syntax, terminology, functions, libraries; plus all the odd little exceptions, fine distinctions, and corners cases that might possibly crop up.

Anyone who thinks they can memorize and intuitively and instictively understand every single possible aspect of the Perl language in less than five years is kidding themselves. Just reading and memorizing everything that exists on CPAN (let alone learning how to use it) can take months!

It takes a long, long time before you can legitimately put the word "Perl", or "Java" on a resume. It had better be worth the effort by the time you get done. The job market isn't good for Perl these days.

In reply to Re^5: Where are future senior programmers coming from? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Where are future senior programmers coming from? by tilly

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