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Is there some age limit for normal guys who wanna learn Perl?

I used to have to deal with a development group manager who firmly believed that "you should stop trying to learn anything new at age 40."

I had two words to answer him with: "Bovine Scatology!."

I've never stopped learning. It may be harder to do at times and I'm in my mid fifties. Since I turned forty the stuff I've learned to do from a standing start include (but are not limited to)

How to make Belgian (style) Ales.
JSP, Java Server Faces (JSF), Hibernate Programming
Tomcat
Puppet
Nagios
Arduino
Italian Cooking
How to smoke meats (finding the right end to light helps)
Sausage making
How to train dogs
How to rehabilitate aggressive dogs
Dog Agility handling
Rally handling

and if I looked at some of my past journals I could probably come up with more stuff.

Point is the time to stop learning stuff is when you get that underground and really small apartment with no exits.

I don't plan on moving into that apartment yet, so I don't plan on stopping learning. Even stuff that I've already learned there is still a learning process as you hone your knowledge to a finer point and you get better at it.

As for forgetting syntax... memory is the second thing that fails as you get older...

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to Re: Forgetting Syntax, Forgetting logic, Heck, Should I even try keep learning Perl?? by blue_cowdawg
in thread Forgetting Syntax, Forgetting logic, Heck, Should I even try keep learning Perl?? by Anonymous Monk

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