Long before my epiphany with vim I'd been using Dreamweaver for HTML authoring and digging further into it's capabilities I came across its regular expression features within Find & Replace. There was a note in "Dreamweaver Bible" referring to "Mastering Regular Expressions" which I found in a local library and from there I realised Perl was the languaged to learn if you wanted access to the full power of regexes. I next read the first 2/3 of "Programming Perl" while also trying to learn Java. By day I wrestled with Java OO and by night I relaxed with Larry Wall's entertaining tome. I only had space in my life for one "real" programming language so Perl won.

In reply to Re^2: What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl? by generator

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