alt Hacker NewsWas Perl one of your first languages by any chance? I freely admit that I've only been poking at it for a few months; maybe by this time next year, I'll be boggled at the comment I left, like it was written by a different person.
> in between “bash script” and “real developer”.
One of my coworkers gave me some great perspective by saying, "at least it's not written in Bash!"
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asa400 • yesterday at 9:07 PM
> One of my coworkers gave me some great perspective by saying, "at least it's not written in Bash!"
I wish bash was the thing that was dying. As an industry, we need to make better choices.
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Yep, first language I learned. And since I was somewhat early to the Internet thing, I found IRC when I was about 14 years old and actually learned from a lot of the folks who have authored books on Perl or are at least (were) well known in the community.
It certainly was the major factor in how I connected the dots!
Haven’t really thought about it until now, but I suppose having Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz telling you to RTFM guides your early development in a certain manner.
I certainly have never considered myself a developer or programmer though. I can pick up enough syntax to get a quick hack done or start a MVP to demo my ideas, but I leave the “big boy” dev stuff to the professionals who can run circles around me.