Greetings my fellow monks. It has been one year since my last program.

Sitting here programing after a long break off of programing I find that I have forgotten some of my Perl skills. It mostly comes back after a bit of thinking but it takes a while to put even a line of code down. I used to be able to program without thinking and put down lines of code as if I were possesed. However it now takes me a very long time to come up with what I need to do. It bothers me that it does take so long. I wonder if I'm burnt out still. I'm trying to get back into Perl form but it's depressing that I have to hunt for answers that I knew off hand before I took a break to start my own business which wasn't Perl related. Just a year away and the "Use it or lose it" principal has struck.

Has any of you been in this situation? What have you done to get back into Perl programing form? Is the best thing to do is to "just do it"?

BMaximus

In reply to Confession - Getting hit with "Use it or lose it" by BMaximus

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