The older we get, the better we were....

I've only been doing Perl for about ten years. Four as a SA, building quick scripts to get us out of jams, and the last six+ as a Perl Developer writing production code for various non-CGI applications.

I came in (thank all the Gods) at the back end of the Perl4 era; my first real Perl Coding assignment was to figure out if a Perl5 rewrite of a Perl4 system was behaving in the same way when handed a particularly nasty edge-case. A quick and somewhat painful introduction to Perl 4's Module and O-O structure ensued; followed immediate by a crash course (aided by Damian's Book) on how Perl5 OO should be handled.

Since then, it has been all Fun'n'Games.