Re: Indicators of your Perl skill

[KeighleHawk]

The only true knowledge consists in knowing that you know nothing... (credited to Socrates by Bill and Ted) :-)

I am tempted to expand on what a few already alluded too in that you should not confuse Perl mastery and Programming mastery. A complete and in-depth knowledge of a hammer does not make you a master home builder. The reverse is of course also true, if you decide to switch from that old fashioned hammer to an air powered nail gun. You should give fair warning to those looking to you for guidence to take cover for a few minutes...

However, it depends on your purpose for the ranking. If you want to screen someone for a job the two become (potentially) more closely related since you are wanting to pay someone to make practical use of those tools.

On the other hand (am I up to three hands yet?) you may still be better served to keep the two questions distinct and seperate. Doing so will tell you what training you really need in order to improve your skills. It doesn't do you any good to buy the GoF book on Patterns and let it sit on the shelf for three years (like mine has) if you are not ready for it. But if Perl itself is no longer offering you anything new to learn, perhaps some general books on design and development methodologies might be what gives your code that next big boost.