[Kc] Where did your perl come from?
Emmanuel Mejias
emmanuel.mejias at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 09:01:23 PDT 2007
wow! i need to get with you guys and start picking your brains! i like the
functionality of perl and all the cool stuff you can do with it, but it
looks like i'm just barely scratching the surface learning it! i'm a
sysadmin and although, most seem to either script in bash or korn, i thought
i'd get crazy and learn some perl.
On 10/6/07, Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:26:03 -0500
> Scott Kahler <scottk at uclick.com> wrote:
>
> > This brought to mind a question that comes up every once in awhile.
> > How did you go about learning perl?
>
> My Perl journey started in 1997. Back then there weren't a ton
> of learning options other than Programming Perl and perldoc,
> so that's what I used.
>
> At that point I had some experience with Logo, Basic, Pascal,
> C/C++, and a strange little language called Lite. Lite was
> bundled with a free ( but not strictly Open Source ) database
> called mSQL ( not the lack of a 'y' ). I was using Lite/mSQL
> to build small web applications for my employer, but was
> really just a sysadmin who wrote a bit of code. I was then
> introduced to a great programmer who did everything in Perl.
>
> After he showed me a few things about Perl I was hooked and
> really haven't looked back. I then found CPAN and the rest is
> history...
>
> Yes I do occasionally check out other languages to make sure I'm not
> flying down this road blind/ignorant, but so far no one has showed me
> a compelling reason to switch to something else as my primary
> language.
>
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