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Perl was the first programming language I worked with at a real, paying job. I don’t miss that job, but it did teach me a lot about how to deliver value quickly
by cushychicken 3y ago
Perl was the first programming language I worked with at a real, paying job. I don’t miss that job, but it did teach me a lot about how to deliver value quickly (Perl is still better at smashing 400 million lines of text than most other languages), and some of the impediments to that (Perl’s “write only” syntactic approach).
For all of Perl’s shortcomings, I’ve always felt that no other language came with Larry and Randall’s sense that programming was fun. The Perl folks always understood that our skills were rare, and the powers they conferred were inherently magic - even if a bit dorky.
- bitwize 3y agoNow thanks to Devin, anyone can have that skill!
- dleink 3y agoBut AI can never replace the human dorkiness I bring to a project.
- cushychicken 3y agoYou should try asking ChatGPT about Lord of the Rings esoterica. You might be surprised.
- RandalSchwartz 3y agoIndeed, I started programming early (age 9 or so) and have always seemed to have a talent for programming, but also just a sense that it's fun to work out how to express steps in terms of smaller reusable steps.