The first match at grepping my diary for /perl/i shows January 31, 1999. I don't know where my interest came from, nor when I heard "Perl" for the first time. Four days later I tried my first script, that looks pretty decent to me even today.

Some months later I grabbed one of those "Learn X in 21 days" tutorial on Perl and began to code with confidence. Didn't do much with it (lame IRC bots, technical analysis of stock quotes) until recently when I subscribed to clpmisc and began to take it more seriously. Now everytime I have to do something, sooner or later I try it in Perl even if it's not the most appropriate language for the task.

Some days ago I created an account in PM and this is in fact my first post here. I'm looking forward to cp many megs of knowledge into my brain!