So based on this you consider yourslef proficient?

Post #173,186 by broomberg 9/8/04 5:53:39 PM Reply	So based on this you consider yourslef proficient? People should willingly pay you to solve problems in this language? That you won't have latent bugs due to simply not understanding how things work? Sigh. You just proven my point. (you'll note I don't say this to Scott)
Post #173,187 by pwhysall 9/8/04 5:54:47 PM Reply	Not "proficient". But Perl code that I've written is still running doing useful work and doesn't appear to be broken. Sigh yourself. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #173,188 by broomberg 9/8/04 5:56:51 PM Reply	So is that open toilet draining out the back of my house But something tells me it is not up to code.
Post #173,191 by pwhysall 9/8/04 6:01:06 PM Reply	What's the matter? Does it nark you that a non-programmer like me can write code that does useful work in your language of choice? You seem quite sniffy on this subject. Of course, you'll understand that the business benefits of diverting a full-time developer to the problem of parsing Backup Exec log files are minimal at best. So instead of pissing and moaning, I wrote the code. It sucks! But it works! And it works almost well! The problem with this is what? Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #173,200 by broomberg 9/8/04 6:47:15 PM Reply	Nothing I apologize. As long as it is a limited task and can't cause data breakage, more power to you. I just seem to spend a lot of emergency FIX IT NOW time trying to fix data damaged by people who thought they were programmers. I've lost a lost of weekends that way.

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