Re: Testing job applicants

[seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)]

In article <_CUD3.13528$N77.974985@typ11.nn.bcandid.com>,
Kragen Sitaker <kragen@dnaco.net> wrote:
>I have been answering a lot of questions in comp.lang.perl.misc over
>the last week or two.  Most of them are questions that suggest that the
>querent is either self-taught (badly) or taught by truly incompetent
>teachers.

>On the other hand, I haven't taken any Perl courses, either, and I'm
>answering these questions correctly.

Yeah, well, Larry Wall never took a perl course that I know of, and he seems
to know his way around pretty well.

>I suspect there are reluctantly self-taught people and eagerly
>self-taught people.

Oh, a very good distinction!

-s
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