Should I Learn Perl?

No. In fact, don't learn any programming languages. Once you start down the path, forever will it determine your destiny. You'll work for 30+ hours straight, unable to stop, forced to develop an addiction to highly caffeinated beverages to keep going. One language will not be enough, you'll have to learn more, and more, and more. Your apartment (you don't need a house, you won't have time for wife/kids) will be full of computers to test your software on, you'll build beowulf clusters just for the hell of it! You'll put off eating for days because you just have to get those 460841 lines of asm written as soon as possible. Then, you'll start reading Perlmonks.

For the love of God man, get out while you can! Go get yourself a law degree, a 150,000+/year job, a nice summer home in Dominica, and relax. You'll thank me later.

In reply to Re: Should I learn Perl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Should I learn Perl? by Anonymous Monk

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