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19 years in academic IT. Programmed in VAX BASIC, FORTRAN, DCL, Assembly. Fiddled with COBOL and Ada, and even taught Pascal. Picked up AWK and Perl in the late 1990s, and stayed with Perl due to its versatility and portability. It's now my "home" programming language. I try to write something new with Perl every 6 months or so to keep my programming chops limber.