SPUG: Who/What is a Perl User?

[Asim Jalis]

Phillip Neal <phillipneal at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > If you're reading this message, you
> > self-identify as a "perl user".  What does
> > that mean to you?  What do you do?  How does
> > Perl affect your life?
> 
> It means :
> 
> 1. I know a good thing when I see it.
> 
> 2. I'm too old to change from procedural
> programming to object oriented programming,
> which as far as I can tell OO means full
> employment for anal-retents.
> 
> 3. I believe that doing something in 30
> minutes in Perl with a big internal
> organization fight as opposed to 30 days in
> Java and some slime ball greasing around
> saying how cool everything is is worth it.
> 
> 4. I am to lazy to learn Java. And what does
> it do for me anyway ?

Here are some more reasons for my being a
perl-head:

5. CPAN

6. Damian's whacky talks

Asim

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