--- Wiggins d Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > looking to break out of a > > non-challenging career in mainframe work :^> ) > > > > On my "own", meaning no formal education in Perl. I got my start on the > job from 2 programmers that came before me (which is why it wasn't > really on my own), but that was 1997 and times have changed, a lot. > However I learned *Perl programming* from this list and reading the docs > over the last year and a half, before that I was, at best, doing Perl 4 > web programming, which *is* a different thing, though I wouldn't have > admitted it (and didn't really know it), either, at the time :-). > > You have hit on the key point for me, this game is about constantly > learning, doctors have CME, dentists have CDE, other professions require > re-education to remain licensed, while I don't know that I would agree > with licensing programmers in a similar manner, if a developer believes > they will not fall behind by sitting comfortably in their current > position they are definitely going to find themselves as obsolete as the > tech they work in. Whether it matters is a different discussion and one > that others have hinted to... > > http://danconia.org > > > -- > Boycott the Sugar Bowl! You couldn't pay me to watch that game. THanks - actually i've done my best learning outside of the classroom - however having discovered Linux about 2 yrs. ago and more recently Perl has for the first time in a while given me something worth pursuing "seriously". I'm working slowly towards the Linux Professional Institute's exams - it would be nice to put down on a resume also "Perl Certified" rather than "well I've written some neat scripts at home"...I'm looking for good things to happen though...
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