Re: [FWP] Perl Moral Support

[Ofer Inbar <cos@polyamory.org>]

I was a burned out programmer, until perl.

I learned Applesoft BASIC in 3rd grade, Logo in 4th, 6502 assembly in
5th.  By the time I was through college I'd also written programs in
Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, Scheme, Common LISP, x86 assembly, Prolog, C...
and I was burned out.  I didn't want to be a programmer anymore.  I
found it tedious and frustrating, and the fun of creation was muted.

But halfway through college I started learning perl, and eventually I
started realizing that I was enjoying it.  That was 1990 or 91.  I
don't think I've written a program in any language but perl (not
counting boot scripts written in sh) since 1994.  I still consider
myself burned out on programming, but perl is the exception.  It lets
me enjoy the creativity of programming without the tedium and with
only a fraction of the frustration.

I don't know if that counts as moral support.  It certainly makes me
immune to perl-bashing.  "Perl makes the programmers happier" could be
a useful line of argument in an industry where recruiting and
retention are such a big problem for many companies.

  --  Cos (Ofer Inbar)  --  cos@polyamory.org http://www.leftbank.com/CosWeb/
  --  WBRS (100.1 FM)   --      info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/
  "Christ was miquoted.  He meant to say 'The GEEK shall inherit the earth'"
       -- Mathew A. Hennessy <hennessy@cloud9.net>

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