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I learned Perl by:
  • Staring at the manpage for Perl version 1
  • Staring at the manpage for Perl version 2 (all 10 pages of it)
  • Rewriting all my shell and emacs-lisp hacks as Perl
  • Answering questions in comp.unix.shell with Perl
  • Being on the alpha-test team for Perl version 3
  • Reading through the updated manpages for version 3 very carefully
  • Opening my mouth when Larry announced that he might write up some sort of additional documentation to say I'd help him with it, which eventually became the first Camel book
  • Studying Perl very deeply inside and out while writing that first Camel
  • Sending lots of emails to Larry
  • Writing about Perl incorrectly, only to be corrected by Larry
  • Writing a course for a california training company
  • Presenting said course
  • Turning the course into the first Llama book
  • Creating a different course from the Llama book
  • Presenting that course in front of tens of thousands of people over the years
  • Turning that course and others like it into the world's leading on-site and open-enrollment training company
  • Studying the "perldelta" manpage and diff -ru's of the sources very carefully as each new release comes out
  • Rewriting the camel once, and the llama twice
  • Contributing to the shiny ball book, and that OOP book from down under
  • Writing the alpaca book
  • Reviewing a dozen other Perl books
  • Working for a dozen clients over the years as a Perl hacker
  • Writing over 170 magazine articles
  • Answering 3000+ posts here
  • Answering an uncountable number of Usenet postings
  • Answering dozens of perl-beginner mailing list posts
  • Answering thousands of private emails
  • Attending 7 TPCs and 2 YAPCs and nearly 20 GeekCruises
  • Visiting roughtly a hundred different Perl Monger events
  • Hanging out with the boards of TPI and PM after founding them
  • Paying attention to search.cpan.org's "recent module" list
  • Reading the more interesting module details from that list

And I still have a lot to learn.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.


In reply to •Re: Learning Perl? by merlyn
in thread Learning Perl? by katch

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