SPUG: rejecting PERL applicants?

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I would never hire anyone who knows what shibboleth means (don't worry Jeff
I will most likely never get the opportunity to hire you and you just
copied shibboleth from the post anyway).

I don't get your EJB to MJB analogy to Perl and PERL. I don't think the
letters are the same.   Are they? Plus what about the caps?

Just so no hard feelings are taken I think a BEER is in order. Anyone from
the list who can make it to the Issaquah Brewpub before 6 and can spell
PERL gets a beer on me.

On Friday, June 8, 2012, Jeff Almeida wrote:

> I'm fond of Randal's answer to the question, found here:
> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=510594
>
> Which is to say, it's perfectly reasonable to use the misuse of PERL as a
> shibboleth to identify outsiders; if you don't know (or don't *care to
> know*, which is even worse) enough about the language to know not to render
> it in all caps because (in the words of perlfaq1), "Perl is not an
> acronym," you shouldn't expect to pass a Bozo-filter screening for senior
> Perl developer positions. :D
>
> Look at it this way: Would another employer screening people for Java gigs
> take someone seriously who didn't know the difference between EJB (a
> technology) and MJB (a brand of mediocre coffee)? ;)
>
> Jeff D. Almeida
> near Seattle, WA
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:16 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP <
> cjac at colliertech.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'cjac at colliertech.org');>>wrote:
>
>> wut.  AWK stands for the authors.  It's just written awk 'cuz they're on
>> the DL.  I mean the dl.
>>
>> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 15:29 -0700, Craig Steffler wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >                                Cc:
>> > Andrew Sweger <andrew at sweger.net <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'andrew at sweger.net');>>,
>> > SPUG Members <spug-list at pm.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'spug-list at pm.org');>>
>> >                           Subject:
>> > Re: SPUG: rejecting PERL
>> > applicants?
>> >                              Date:
>> > Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:29:49 -0700
>> >
>> >
>> > Look further and see if they have REGEX.
>> > Better yet mess with them and ask what AWK stands for?
>>
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