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I probably didn't learn Perl because PHP superseded it for web stuff.

• alexjplant 3y ago
  This. PHP was my first "real" programming language (which is a bit scary now that I think about it since it followed me learning QBasic and VB6) and by the time I was messing with it for web dev circa 2003 CGI scripts were on their way out. I suspect that it had something to do with CPanel/WHM-based shared hosting setups being reticent to deal with something as powerful as CGI and preferring to just run PHP in Safe Mode. I could be wrong though as I was also a technically-ignorant punk that fixed phpBB installer filesystem permission issues by 777'ing everything in my hosting directory :-). Good times...
  • mulmen 3y ago
    Ha! Cheers! My first language was VB.net and my first paying gig was porting a VB6 app. But my career really started when I took on Perl and Oracle. Good times indeed.
• mulmen 3y ago
  You missed out. Perl is way more than the web. Nobody is grinding up csv files with PHP. But I wired up an Oracle billing system and a MSSQL invoice system in under a month as a junior dev. And it worked. Every library I needed was at my fingertips on CPAN. And just… worked. Connect to Oracle, run SQL, create a CSV, FTP it somewhere. EZPZ.