It was about 1995 or 1996... I was a Maths student and they introduced my to the World Wide Web internals... I wanted to create some dynamic application for the web, but I only knew Fortran at the time, which was not good for CGIs

My Numerical Analysys teacher (and UNIX guru at the time) told me I could try Perl. What does it look like?, I asked; and he said Mmmmmh, there is some C in, and some sed and awk, and some shell... it's like a "the best of" collection

I didn't like the description, but I decided to give it a try. I bought two books (one of which was the first edition of the Camel book) and I started. I found it funny, and I went on.

Later I become a System Administrator, and I found it so useful that I can't think of many things I can do with another programming language for my job (but, sadly, there are some... :-(

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ;
}

In reply to Re: Rolling into Perl by bronto
in thread Rolling into Perl by robartes

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