The first match at grepping my diary for /perl/i shows January 31, 1999. I don't know where my interest came from, nor when I heard "Perl" for the first time. Four days later I tried my first script, that looks pretty decent to me even today.

Some months later I grabbed one of those "Learn X in 21 days" tutorial on Perl and began to code with confidence. Didn't do much with it (lame IRC bots, technical analysis of stock quotes) until recently when I subscribed to clpmisc and began to take it more seriously. Now everytime I have to do something, sooner or later I try it in Perl even if it's not the most appropriate language for the task.

Some days ago I created an account in PM and this is in fact my first post here. I'm looking forward to cp many megs of knowledge into my brain!

David Serrano

In reply to Re: Roads to Perl by Hue-Bond
in thread Roads to Perl by gunzip

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