in reply to Dirge (Retrograde Amnesia)

If you keep good notes (in version control), refer to them often, and review and condense them, esp before switching languages, when you come back 3 months later, you can refresh your memory in 5 minutes or less.

Its much more effective if you create the notes yourself and keep them in your pocket, like a touchstone (Hipster PDA, http://www.pocketmod.com/), but for perl I find that reading perlcheat and/or perlintro is sufficient.

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Re^2: Dirge (Retrograde Amnesia)
by biohisham (Priest) on Oct 23, 2009 at 14:05 UTC
    These are nice tips. perlcheat and perlintro are readily accessible right through perldoc, WOW, they are so concise and condensed that things become correlated nicely. Thanks for making me aware of this utility in Perl..

    I'd surely want to get more tips, the PDA is another one-hell-of-a-way, I'd think of building one for myself...

    Thank God, I have made notes around different levels for the other language, I'd go back through them and figure a better organizational approach so I can retain info better. Thing is, compared to Perl, that is such a rigid language and extremely commercial, no provisions for open sourcing or sharing with the same spirit Perl offers hence a reduced interactivity and less enthusiastic resources is what results.

    Hail Perl...

    Excellence is an Endeavor of Persistence. Chance Favors a Prepared Mind.
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