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Re: Undefined subroutine - newbie problemby sundialsvc4 (Abbot) |
on Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 UTC ( [id://987331]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
An “extreme fast Perl workshop?” (blink...) “Ordered to” finish a few programs ... “For a positive grade?” What is this, high school? No, it’s probably the beginnings of what we call a “death march,” only sugar-coated and draped in quasi-athletic jerseys. In the real world, you don’t get brownie points for doing work “quickly.” Your work will be in production for a dozen years so it must be done well. If the company is pressuring you to learn how to sling-out garbage “quickly,” then very quietly but very quickly look for another job. One that provides professional training but without the jock-strap expectations and misguided pressures. If you survive in such a place for more than a year (and they probably calculate that only a small percentage of you actually will ...), then you will be doomed to maintain that code. “It takes three times as long to do it wrong.” If you are in a situation that emphasizes “speed,” either so that you “do not fail” or in order to prove what a whatever-you-think-you-are you are, instead of teaching you how to produce real quality, then you are in a lose-lose situation that they write books about. It takes time to learn how to do this well. Make sure that they are guiding you toward realistic and sustainable expectations.
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