What kept me away? Two rather heavy project courses. Last term, I wrote a compiler front-end pretty much from scratch (while taking four other courses). I didn't really want to do much hacking when I came home from twelve-hour days in the lab alternately debugging a bison grammar written by someone else and fiddling with FFT code whose output didn't quite fit with the textbook's dictum.
How did I get back into it? A couple things. First, I have a fair bit of Perl code hanging about, doing various behind-the-scenes but important things on the server I'm adminning. When I realized that this term gave me more free time than last term did, I decided to start putting more time into maintenance, and start chipping away at my to-implement feature list. Second, a friend asked me to serve as local Perl guru for a project he's embarking on. That got me back into reading my (and his) Perl, but didn't quite get me back up to the point I was at a year or so ago, when I was hacking Perl full-time.
What to do?
Come right on back to Perl Monks. In the past week or so, I've been exposed to other people's problems, solutions, comments, ideas, and opinions. It's a wonderfully mind-broadening experience.
Now if only I could find the same push to get back into Lisp hacking....
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The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!
In reply to Re: Reclaiming Perl
by FoxtrotUniform
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