in reply to Who's still around?

I definitely don't qualify as an "old-timer", having joined PM in 2010 (but I had used Perl since 5.6 which was in 2000 and had been following PM in a read-only mode for some time).

I started programming in Basic and Assembler on a Commodore 116 when I was about 13, then discovered Borland Pascal on my father's PC XT. I didn't study programming, though, I graduated in logic and mathematical linguistics (close enough?). Spent 11 years in corporations and startups before returning to academia. Perl still pays my bills.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^2: Who's still around?
by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 10, 2024 at 08:59 UTC

    Meh, you're an old-timer in my books.

    You portray a strong affinity to the Perl language in every place I run into you. I used to say "I'm not a programmer". Your claim "I'm not an old-timer" is kind of the same. You're a resilient, dedicated and honourable educator of the language, and have been for many years.

    Classify yourself as a "young-timer" if that makes you feel better.

    Keep up your awesome work choroba.

    - stevieb

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