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Same here. Learned CGI.pm and read the Perl & MySQL book by Dubois as well as most of the O'Reilly Perl collection. Then I was off to the races. Built an app wi
by cutler 5y ago
Same here. Learned CGI.pm and read the Perl & MySQL book by Dubois as well as most of the O'Reilly Perl collection. Then I was off to the races. Built an app with CGI::Application which ran a client's business for over a decade without many hiccups. Programming Perl by Larry Wall and Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl are still some of my favourite tech books.
- cranberryturkey 5y agoYes, indeed. The last Perl thing I worked was a masonhq project in 2008.
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- cutler 5y agoMason was supposed to be Perl's answer to PHP. Trouble is you could only get it to anywhere the speed of PHP by hosting it on mod_perl which wasn't an option with shared hosting deals. Same with Perl's heavyweight framework Catalyst - a veritable beast without mod_perl. All died a death in the fire of Perl's attempts to compete with PHP, Python and Ruby. Moose, Mouse, Moo, Mo - none of it really stuck because Perl's forte was procedural. Having said that The Damian did a great job promoting OO Perl. That guy's a true genius. The thing I miss most about my time with Perl in the 2000s is the cast of characters. No language I've come across since has anywhere near the range of acolytes which made the Perl community legendary.
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