Coworker evaluating a stack of resumes: "This guy blatantly lies on his resume. Nobody has 15 years of Perl experience!"
Me: Um... I do.
C.e.a.s.o.r: What?
Me: (thinks a bit) 1991. Either July or August. Perl was at 4.032 or 4.033 if I recall. That would be (thinks for a second) 19 years!
C.e.a.s.o.r: (look on his face of shock and horror) Oh. I guess he isn't lying.
Me: Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
(this happened last year... I delayed this post so-as to obscure any possibility of identifying information)
Wow, that's pretty sad, but I think there's both a trend here: as knowledge becomes more specialized, people tend not to know things about what came before what they're working on.
In particular, I'm really curious as to *why* this Googler didn't think that anyone could have 15+ years of Perl experience?
Hmm, I guess I started with, roughly, Perl 4.036 in 1992 or 1993. I remember learning a good chunk of it from the man page.