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• About: I think in Perl.

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• Commented on Software Test Podcast
  I think you hit the mark as to why Perl programmers are often thought of differently from other programmers with this quote: "This is real software engineering, whereas most of us still work as artisans." You see more artisans who...

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• David Cantrell commented on Software Test Podcast

  Most programmers in almost all languages are artisans (the exceptions being those who use Ada and those who work in safety-critical areas where people can die expensively, like avionics and railway signalling), but I agree, perl programmers are even more likely than most to be artisans. I suppose there's a 99.9% chance that some random perl dev is, but it's only 99% if you don't limit yourself to perl. I don't consider that to be a significant difference.