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(merlyn knows) Re: How long have you been using Perl?by japhy (Canon) |
on May 12, 2004 at 22:47 UTC ( [id://352911]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I started using it in 1997. merlyn can attest to "tecmaster" from bergen.org logging onto EFnet #perl and asking questions that got me kicked. I was "Jeff, the teaching teen perl hacker", I believe.
Why did I learn Perl? Because my school personal web site's "search engine" consisted of a textarea whose contents were emailed to me when the user clicked the "submit" button. I would then email them back telling them what pages were good for the content they were looking for. (Yecch.) So I learned Perl so I could write a search engine-type thing. That summer, I got a job at my high school writing admin scripts in Perl. I took off from there. I learned Perl sitting at Barnes & Noble reading the camel because I had no money to buy it; I didn't need a terminal near me to test things... I absorbed Perl pretty easily. Now, I believe I have somewhere around 10 Perl books.
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