after reading and replying to tame1's post yestrday Missing Something it set me to thinking about being a perl programmer and i wanted to send out some thoughts to see if i can get some thoughts on the subject about the person behind/inside/beside/totally-seperate-from the perl programmer...
i aspire to being one of the those people who calls themselves a perl programer, and with the generosity of time and wisdom from the monks herein, feel that path not so dark as it once was... but still, i can only say i program in perl, a distinction, in my mind, that has come to represent a goal of when i can say proudly or loudly "i'm a perl programmer... where's the coffee machine?"...
i doubt that the moment is code based: when i can use the Mod::Thing within this block, i'll then have magically traded my jeans for a homespun hooded robe with a hemp sash... or that it is one moment... and i expect (read: hope) that i'll recognize it when it comes...
but, as i've never been a "geek" or computer guy, i don't eat and breathe the stuff, and i feel that others do, i wonder if i'll ever make the transition (meaning if i don't eat or breathe it and attend every YAPC, will i ever be so blessed/cursed)... i know i will, but it doesn't chase the feelings away when i bang through my code and then find a piece here on perlmonks that does what i did in two simple lines, and it took me 4 nested while staments...
btw, that was example... i never had that happen... it was only two nested... =)
so i was looking for other people's experience from the persepective of an observer... when you step back and look at the person behind the programmer (of whatever level), did you ever feel similar?... if so, when did it change, if ever?... if not, why do you think?...
in five months, my contract runs out and i'm looking to get another in a Perl related job, even if it's Sys Admin-who-writes-perl-scripts-to-make-our-machine-cooler/faster/better (or just work period)... and i'm interested, in this node, in the journey part of the journey and how the code mirrored that journey for others...
magnus
i aspire to being one of the those people who calls themselves a perl programer, and with the generosity of time and wisdom from the monks herein, feel that path not so dark as it once was... but still, i can only say i program in perl, a distinction, in my mind, that has come to represent a goal of when i can say proudly or loudly "i'm a perl programmer... where's the coffee machine?"...
i doubt that the moment is code based: when i can use the Mod::Thing within this block, i'll then have magically traded my jeans for a homespun hooded robe with a hemp sash... or that it is one moment... and i expect (read: hope) that i'll recognize it when it comes...
but, as i've never been a "geek" or computer guy, i don't eat and breathe the stuff, and i feel that others do, i wonder if i'll ever make the transition (meaning if i don't eat or breathe it and attend every YAPC, will i ever be so blessed/cursed)... i know i will, but it doesn't chase the feelings away when i bang through my code and then find a piece here on perlmonks that does what i did in two simple lines, and it took me 4 nested while staments...
btw, that was example... i never had that happen... it was only two nested... =)
so i was looking for other people's experience from the persepective of an observer... when you step back and look at the person behind the programmer (of whatever level), did you ever feel similar?... if so, when did it change, if ever?... if not, why do you think?...
in five months, my contract runs out and i'm looking to get another in a Perl related job, even if it's Sys Admin-who-writes-perl-scripts-to-make-our-machine-cooler/faster/better (or just work period)... and i'm interested, in this node, in the journey part of the journey and how the code mirrored that journey for others...
magnus
Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura
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