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Re: What do you do for living?

by adrianh (Chancellor)
on Mar 07, 2006 at 17:47 UTC ( [id://534980]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What do you do for living?

Is your job assoicated to Perl?

Kinda. I probably spend most of my paid programming with Perl. But I'm paid to make clients happy with great software. Perl is just a tool that helps me along the way.

What education do you have?

BA (in Computing and Artificial Intelligence if anybody cares :-)

Im a molecularbiologist/bioinformaticist doing an project in bioinformatics and have the privelige to write Perl everyday, allday long these days. I dont get any money for it though.

Yes you do :-) Nobody is paid just to write perl. People are paid to make things happen. Perl is just a means to an end - whether it be an e-commerce web site or a whole bunch of phylogenetic analysis.

That's why it gets my goat when people refer to me as a Perl Programmer. I'm not a perl programmer. I'm a programmer. Or, if I'm going to be picky - a software developer. People pay me to make software. Programming is just one skill I use to help make software. Perl is just one tool I use when I'm programming. I've used other tools before I used Perl. I'm 100% I'll use other tools in the future.

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