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Re: This isn't a job offer.

by perrin (Chancellor)
on Apr 03, 2007 at 03:16 UTC ( [id://607964]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to This isn't a job offer.

One of my friends in the midwest is doing just fine at hiring Perl developers. He hires good programmers who know Java but aren't married to it, and he gives them a Perl book and a little time to come up to speed. He says it works.

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Re^2: This isn't a job offer.
by hossman (Prior) on Apr 03, 2007 at 05:51 UTC

    That sounds like a good approach to me.

    Once upon a time, my company was a hodegepodge of development ... Tcl, Perl, C, Java, etc. A few years ago we rebuilt everything in Java, and "standardized" on being a "Java shop" so we start hiring "Java Developers" ... biggest mistake we ever made in my opinion. Now people have to write little mini-java apps just to do some log crunching because they don't know any other way.

    Hire smart people; have them write code. Worry about the language they use somewhere in between -- not before, not after.

      I once saw 14MB of Java libraries and code to parse some text files. The same job could have been done in Perl, Sed or Awk in less than a thousand lines. Every job is a nail when all you have a a hammer.

      Neil Watson
      watson-wilson.ca

        I wonder who were the programmers. You can reimplement Perl 10 times over in 14 MB of Java code...

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