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• Whoa (Score:1)

  by ank (5971)

  LOL!

  And you were leaving comments on perl 5 and 6 replying to my criticisms of the language? Maybe its time to change your sig:

  "J. David works really hard reimplementing bult-in functions"

  Third-rate programmers, unite!
  • Re:Whoa (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361) on 2010.08.25 7:34 (#72345) Homepage Journal

    J. David writes a lot of one-off crap and wishes he wrote Perl full-time...

    My signature was a quote from someone here about me that was just so incredibly complimentary that I grabbed it and kept it. I suppose keeping it was a little pompous, but you know, it really built me up. And reminds me to try to be a good programmer even when circumstances aren't always conducive.

    To that end, even my one-off crap used strict and warnings, but I guess it still doesn't get me out of the guilt from reinventing a wheel. Has ucFirst been around forever, or was it something that came around after I quit doing Perl full-time in 2007? (Hoping for a little reprieve. :P :) )

    --
    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

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    • Re: (Score:1)

      by ank (5971)

      Hey, I think its a really nice quote; personally I wouldn't use it in my sig - maybe just quote it in my website or something, dunno. I would treasure it just like you did, though.

      ucfirst() has been around for ages, afaik. At least a decade, possibly much more.

      Why did you quit doing Perl full time? Was it a decision or did the market push you to it? Just curious. Do you actually want to go back to writing Perl full-time?

      I am currently doing Objective-C most of the time, and even though I miss some of
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jdavidb (1361)

        I changed jobs in 2007 in order to be able to move my family out close to my inlaws. In my previous job I was doing Perl with pressure to switch to Java. I traded that for doing Java after all, but closer to where I wanted to be, in a business environment that is somewhat saner.

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        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
        • Re: (Score:1)

          by ank (5971)

          Similar to what I went through around 2005/2006. Except that what ended up deciding was how much more Java programmers were able to make, especially if they sported the magic "J2EE" incantations. Boy, was I wrong. When I first saw EJBs I knew it was time to get a new job.