Well, I wouldn't say I'm still around because I haven't been here much in a long time but I was very active here in 2003 or so. In late 2002 I found myself working for a startup that was just about to fail. I was having trouble finding work so I had some spare time on my hands. I started hanging out here while making enough money to get by working for a friend that built websites. By mid-2003 I found a job and my spare time got severely cut back. I eventually drifted away from the site. I stopped back every once in a while but never got back into the habit.

I got my first PC in June 1992. It didn't take long for me to get tired of single-tasking windows. I was used to multitasking and asynchronous programming on VMS. I started playing with linux in November. I wanted to learn some scripting and heard about this perl thing and it looked interesting. I started doing a lot of programming with perl 4. It kind of reminded me of my first programming language, BASIC, but much more powerful. I was hooked.

It's a shame how quiet this place has gotten. Back then it was difficult to keep up with all of the activity.

90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒
dragonchild

In reply to Re: Who's still around? by pfaut
in thread Who's still around? by stevieb

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