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[Rich Bowen]

I've been a PHP programmer for the last almost five years. It was easy  
going that direction (Perl -> PHP) because the syntax is very similar.  
Frustrations of missing syntax I wanted, but nothing major new to  
learn. Coming back (PHP -> Perl) is much more frustrating, because of  
all the bad habits I've learned, and the sheer volume of built-in  
functions in PHP. In Perl, there's CPAN. In PHP, there's a built-in  
function for it.

Been back at Perl for about a month, and feeling competent again.

On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:14 , Mike Andrews wrote:

> Yeah, some of us are still around, though good point on the extra  
> work. I ran into one other guy from LPM at a party a month or two  
> ago too... didn't really talk about Perl at the time though.
>
> What were you in the interim?

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Rich Bowen
rbowen at rcbowen.com