AFAIK perl evolved pretty well without big business funding. Guess why? Because perl is orthogonal to business, and fits big and small. Perl is a humble language designed from its very beginning to ease getting things done. Perl never has been a flagship of a company. But it is, since its beginning, an immense and invaluable help for people to get their things done, everywhere.

Every now and then in my company, strategies bubble up, concepts and/or products to make customers happy with. More often than not things don't work out nicely on planning, implementing and integrating, things need to be debugged, glued, makeshifts need to be done. Guess what I reach out for? You name it.

Perl exists not as an edifice, but as an act of love - and so its funding. Congenial businesses fund perl, and they need no certs for labeling anybody, because they look at the person, not the label (skill tests notwithstanding.) Yeah, wishful thinking, you might say, but at very much places this is blissful truth.

In reply to Re^3: Perl Certification by shmem
in thread Perl Certification by cosmicperl

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