Damian Conway On Programming, Perl And More

Andrew writes: "My host pair.com has an interview with Damian Conway in which he talks a lot about his upcoming modules, and what skills a Perl programmer needs. I'm personally waiting on Parse::FastDescent." Conway talks about some interesting modules he's working on, Perl 6, and on programming in general, too.

Comments

Loves to toot his horn, but he can't add

[Jethro73]

> Writing a book is a full-time job. Unfortunately, I already have a full-time job
> writing new Perl modules. And a second full-time job maintaining all my existing modules.
> And a third full-time job helping with the design and explanation of Perl 6. And a fourth
> full-time job traveling around the world speaking at conferences and Perl Mongers
> meetings.
> So taking on a fifth full-time job seemed a little...ambitious.

Isn't a full-time job one that you spend 40+ hours per week on? Since there are 168 hours in a week, even having FOUR full-time jobs would leave a mere eight hours PER WEEK for sleeping, eating, commuting, etc. And 40 hours is the bare minimum around here. I code Perl 50 hours plus per week for actual uses in the credit card industry, not making kooky new modules.

Give me a break, buddy. You aren't the only one who has to work for a living, and your job seems pretty cush... Quit it with the martyr syndrome, and write the damn book.

JM2C...

Jethro73