[Kc] Where did your perl come from?

Frank Wiles frank at wiles.org
Sat Oct 6 08:36:26 PDT 2007


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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