perlmeditation
talexb
<ul><c>Happy Monkday!!1!
You've been here 20 laborious years.
You look marvelous!
</c></ul>
<p>I sing with a group of top-notch musicians ([https://www.northernlightschorus.com|our website]) that I joined back in '98, because I wanted to challenge myself to become a better singer and performer. I did the same thing when I joined this website -- to learn and get better about everything to do with Perl.</p>
<p>Since my background in development languages was C and assembler, my early Perl code looked suspiciously like C. That was just my 'accent' talking. I've become a much more fluent reader and writer of Perl since then. And I owe that improvement to this community, to The Perl Foundation for supporting annual conferences, and to the regular Perlmonger meetings I attend (and host in Toronto).</p>
<p>I continue to be heartened about the progress that Perl development makes -- there are still regular releases, and [Ovid] is making progress with his OO project [https://github.com/Ovid/Cor|Corinna]. And there are new modules and updates popping up on [https://www.metacpan.org|MetaCPAN] every week. So much for the Greek chorus chanting 'Perl is dead' every year.</p>
<p>The quote I had planned to close with turns out to be made up (about Pablo Casal's contining to practise at age 80, because he felt he was '.. making progress.' [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/12/casals-progress/|here]), but still, I like the idea of continuing to practise, even after 20+ years of using a technology, or being a musician. If I get a little better every day, every week, that's progress. I like that.</p>
<div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-131279">
<p>Alex / [talexb] / Toronto</p>
<p><small>Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.</small></p>
</div></div>