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I don't spell PERL, PERL because it's an acronym. I spell it as such because it's that awesome it needs to stand out.
by revoltingx 16y ago
I don't spell PERL, PERL because it's an acronym. I spell it as such because it's that awesome it needs to stand out.
- btilly 16y agoThat's fine. I'm just warning you that many of the awesome developers and best Perl shops out there will put a strike against you for getting it wrong. But if you wish to hurt yourself, go right ahead.
- chromatic 16y agoI agree with Ben. I don't hire people who can't (or won't) spell the name of technologies correctly, whether it's "PERL", "Redhat", or "Postgre".
- revoltingx 16y agoWell, good luck finding good developers whos primary language isn't English. Or developers who treat writing non-code sentences as a waste of time.
- btilly 16y agoPoint of curiosity. Do you have any clue who chromatic is? Or what his role in the Perl community is? I guarantee you that there is no shortage of good developers who's primary language is not English who would love to work with chromatic.
- revoltingx 16y agoI don't know, nor care, who chromatic is. I was simply implying that there are developers like me who can write more code than speak or write English. It's pretty silly to filter candidates based on how they spell something, unless it's blatantly bad of course.
- revoltingx 16y agoI couldn't care less what other developers thought of me. As long as my code works and works well and others can work with it. I'm happy. However, I do appreciate and will take your advice into consideration. I do only talk to my immediate co-workers about code, and 90% of my code is closed-source.
- chromatic 16y agoI see it as a matter of accuracy and humility. People who care about precision and accuracy and getting the little details right make good coworkers. People who care about communicating effectively and who can adapt to the prevailing conventions of the rest of the team on matters of opinion also make good coworkers. You can be right and you can be stubborn, but I respect that when you're stubborn and right and not merely stubborn because you want to be right.