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JamesH said:


Really? We are in worse shape that I thought, and I thought it pretty bad. I interview people occasionally, most CV's are culled before people come in, and I am continually surprised how badly some people perform even after getting through the culling. And these are people who have been working for a few years. How can you be programming for a few years, and not know anything about linked lists?


I use PERL mostly if I need to do any programming, and then I use arrays and hashes but only because I can split a line of text into an array, and run through all the elements quickly with very little code. Perl is like that. Easy to rip and manipulate text. It is why SpamAssassin is written in PERL, as it mainly works by reading emails.

That said I don't claim to be a programmer, though I have had some stuff used for 12 years (and counting).

Benedict White said:


JamesH said:


Really? We are in worse shape that I thought, and I thought it pretty bad. I interview people occasionally, most CV's are culled before people come in, and I am continually surprised how badly some people perform even after getting through the culling. And these are people who have been working for a few years. How can you be programming for a few years, and not know anything about linked lists?


I use PERL mostly if I need to do any programming, and then I use arrays and hashes but only because I can split a line of text into an array, and run through all the elements quickly with very little code. Perl is like that. Easy to rip and manipulate text. It is why SpamAssassin is written in PERL, as it mainly works by reading emails.

That said I don't claim to be a programmer, though I have had some stuff used for 12 years (and counting).



"Perl" for the language and "perl" for the executable.

http://stackoverflow.com/quest.....alize-perl

I coded for 20 years in COBOL without ever needing a linked list

I love PERL. Really truly. Trying to get round to learning Python, but keep going back to my true love.

Benedict White said:


JamesH said:


Really? We are in worse shape that I thought, and I thought it pretty bad. I interview people occasionally, most CV's are culled before people come in, and I am continually surprised how badly some people perform even after getting through the culling. And these are people who have been working for a few years. How can you be programming for a few years, and not know anything about linked lists?


I use PERL mostly if I need to do any programming, and then I use arrays and hashes but only because I can split a line of text into an array, and run through all the elements quickly with very little code. Perl is like that. Easy to rip and manipulate text. It is why SpamAssassin is written in PERL, as it mainly works by reading emails.

That said I don't claim to be a programmer, though I have had some stuff used for 12 years (and counting).


Let me rephrase; how can you claim to have been programming in C or C++, perhaps on embedded devices, and not have a clear knowledge of linked lists and arrays. After all, the Videocore code is all C and assembler.....so not much need of Perl in there. I do use it for processing debugging logs though, although not enough to get proficient at it.

JamesH said:


Let me rephrase; how can you claim to have been programming in C or C++, perhaps on embedded devices, and not have a clear knowledge of linked lists and arrays. After all, the Videocore code is all C and assembler.....so not much need of Perl in there. I do use it for processing debugging logs though, although not enough to get proficient at it.


Oh... let's be clear, no offence was being taken... just my 2c worth.

I must get around to learning C and by implication linked lists etc.

Perl is handy, as is a quick and dirty search using pipes with things like grep for hunting log files.

Any news on my PM requests?

JamesH said:


Let me rephrase; how can you claim to have been programming in C or C++, perhaps on embedded devices, and not have a clear knowledge of linked lists and arrays. After all, the Videocore code is all C and assembler.....so not much need of Perl in there. I do use it for processing debugging logs though, although not enough to get proficient at it.


Completely agree, sounds like act 1 scene 1 of my university course.

Although Learning C, C++, PIC Assembler and Intel Assembler, in different modules all at the same time was a bit much for my head.

So I became a BOFH instead.

Although all this embedded talk is giving me flashbacks.

Benedict White said:


JamesH said:


Let me rephrase; how can you claim to have been programming in C or C++, perhaps on embedded devices, and not have a clear knowledge of linked lists and arrays. After all, the Videocore code is all C and assembler.....so not much need of Perl in there. I do use it for processing debugging logs though, although not enough to get proficient at it.


Oh... let's be clear, no offence was being taken... just my 2c worth.

I must get around to learning C and by implication linked lists etc.

Perl is handy, as is a quick and dirty search using pipes with things like grep for hunting log files.

Any news on my PM requests?


Sorry, wasn't aiming my comment at you, just at the computer education system. No real news on patches. Think they may be some time, everyone is a bit busy (At the Foundation and at Broadcom - it's CES time!)

Be sure to put some documentation on data structures together with raspberry pi software then! Not only python tutorials.