Python certification

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Eric Wertman a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:52 AM, olive <ocollioud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Certification prooves you're an idiot who needs to spend money to work
>>> for another idiot who doesn't know enough about programming to know if
>>> they hire competent programmers and need an idiot paper to make them
>>> feel better and sleep better at night.
>>>
>> So true !
>> +1 QOTW
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> 
> While in the current state of affairs I agree completely,  I do think
> that IT in general would be a much better field to work in if there
> were some industry standard certifications that were required.  More
> like the medical and legal fields than the vendor specific ones we see
> today from Microsoft, IBM, etc.

I've seen my share of totally incompetent doctors and lawyers...  And 
given current "IT industry standards" (J2EE code monkeys anyone ?), I 
wouldn't bet a single cent on what kind of "certification" they could 
come with.

> Eric