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I started learning Perl when I was 26. Perl was my first programming language. I like Perl a lot.

Thursday October 04, 2001

12:05 PM

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It has been almost 11 months since I first opened the camel book. The following are a few things I like about Perl right now.

Perl...

...quickly secured me a job when my former employer (an Internet startup) went under.
...has given me the tools to write CGI and sysadmin scripts that (hopefully) make people's lives (my own included) just a bit easier.
...showed me that someone like Larry Wall exists, giving me that rare opportunity to have a man I can look at and say, "I want to be like him."
...introduced me to programming and, at least for now, programming is what I love to do.