One job I had for over four years was writing Perl to do my job for me. When I had started, I had a working knowledge, but not much more. The first system I wound up writing replaced three people that had left the company a couple months before.

However, that company never sponspered any TPC or YAPC trips. I did get quite a few books out of it.

Perl made my job there. If not, I would of worked there for only a couple months and been off somewhere else.
Hmmmm, damn you Perl!

Actually, the value is to learn the best and quickest way to do your job. It just happens that Perl can be very useful to do that.

In reply to Re: Perl can get you fired, if you suck at (your job/perl) by lemming
in thread Perl can get you fired, if you suck at (your job/perl) by Beatnik

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