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I'm always curious about why people chose or started using perl. So how about...

I first became interested in Perl because...

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Re^2: poll ideas quest
by mikasue (Friar) on Jul 21, 2006 at 02:02 UTC
    I wonder how many start using Perl due to advocacy from others. Me. Me. Pick me.

    Two great perl programmers at work turned me out

    Coming from C++ and the all the rules, I found perl to be an easy, fast way to do my simple tasks. Then I fell in love with perl monks. Now i'm sold.

    I am learning perl because it's fun! It's been fun to learn perl/TK also.

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Re^2: poll ideas quest
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 19, 2006 at 20:06 UTC
    I wonder how many start using Perl due to advocacy from others.
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