Larry's lectures lead me to Perl which lead me to Perlmonks. It's hard to figure whether it was the Perl or Perlmonks has taken me from doing/having jobs to having a career.

Prior to Perlmonks I was quite satisfied with just writing code that accomplished the task. I was clueless to structure, reusability, and the need for solid application architecture. If it worked it was good enough. Perl allowed me to get the jobs done faster than coders in other languages which afforded me some recognition, but it was Perlmonks that exposed me to the value of good coding practices. Probably most helpful was a reccomendation to read the Pragmatic programmer.

Armed with all of this imput I put together an Enterprise application in Perl that was fully POD documented (and pod2html), with several reusable modules that appears to have not only lifted me past the layoffs, but put me in a position that approves new product architectures.

Currently I'm buried in Java J2ee, but if someone needs a script, Perl still is almost always the right tool to utilize. If weren't for the Damian's book (and attending a lecture of his), I doubt I would have *groked* the fundamental concepts and nuances of OO programming that much of my current code is completely dependant upon

coreolyn

In reply to Re: Has Perl Help To Further Your Career? by coreolyn
in thread Has Perl Help To Further Your Career? by Dru

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