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Spent about 4 weeks learning perl at an internship 10 years ago. I believe that is one of the biggest professional mistakes I ever made. There is literally noth
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Spent about 4 weeks learning perl at an internship 10 years ago. I believe that is one of the biggest professional mistakes I ever made. There is literally nothing I would recommend doing with perl over python.
- xani_ 4y agoMost Python code from 10 years ago won't run on modern distro. Almost all Perl code will
- TristanBall 4y agoFour weeks learning a language was one of your biggest professional mistakes? Really? What were the repercussions of this terrible deed?
- mgraczyk 4y agoI wasted the entire internship writing horrible perl code and not learning how to do anything that I would use later. This was early enough in my career that it had a lasting effect on my perception of software development and it took me 3+ years to get back "on track".