Hello perlfan,

as I said many times, for me Perl is the only sane interaction with the machine in the sense that using perl I'm not in a passive state, being modified by the machine, but modifying it using my will and creativity.

Once someone said that technology is always an extension or an amputation of something the human being already own.

Perl is my extension in the computer parallel world and in what is called IT.

I dont like to be prone and passive and so, something is interesting if I can hack it with perl, or if there is the possibility to do so. All the remaining is an amputation.

Also perl programming is my mental excercise, my hobby, my sudoku, my sparetime activity (when the weather does not permit to dive into the sea ;). No tv nor tv series here: only perl and books and motorcycles maintenance.

I work in IT and in the past I've used perl to automate many boring tasks, mainly on windows because this appeared to be my field and not for my choice. Now $work evolved a lot and no more room is there for the adamantine power Perl brings in everyday IT activities. Maybe I'll get my revenge one day :)

In my opinion relegating Perl to a unix utility is like saying that a Kawasaki motor is a piece of metal alloy. Automation, data manipulation, GUI writing tool, image manipulation, network activities, consuming and serving web application, database activities, multithreading programming.. IT fields where perl is the wrong tool are very few and they are not interesting to me.

My life with perl evolved mainly with the help of the perlmonks community, so I can add this: Perl also let me to comunicate with people with interests similar to mines and this never happened in real life in regard of perl and programming.

Similar meditation already appeared and if you are really interested to my own perspective I invite you to read my opinions in Re: How has Perl affected you? and Re: Why did you become a Perl expert (or programmer)? as well the whole threads, very similar to the present one.

In the end, while I can adhere to your politely requested ground rules they are at least strange: perlmonks has it own minimalistic rules and inside that frame we are all free to express ourself in the way we like.

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: [RFC] What is [pP]erl to you, and how has this changed for you over the years (if it has)? by Discipulus
in thread [RFC] What is [pP]erl to you, and how has this changed for you over the years (if it has)? by perlfan

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