perlmeditation
Discipulus
<i><small>Ten years...<BR><BR>
Ten years (exactly) are passed from my entrance in the monasterium.
Maybe time flies when you are amusing.. or time flies anyway.. the fastest decade ever!<BR><BR>
My first problem was about traversing a directory tree and i'm still remember my head boiling imagining a recursive algorithm.<BR><BR>
The solution heard in the monastery was so simple that I was impressed.<BR><BR>
I'm think about me as a newbie in Perl, but ten years here and near the compiler make me a skilful one.<BR><BR>
I used Perl in many many different environment and with etherogeneous purposes: Win32 sysadmin, CGI, databases, Tk, linux sysadmin, LWP, some math and fun.. Here I ever found some big ol' monk suggesting the right thing, quickly and friendly.<BR><BR>
In last ten years few think are still solid point in this floating reality: my woman, my kawasaki gpz and PerlMonks; I learned the order of priorities may be confused if you not follow The Twelves Pillars Of Wisdom..</small></i><BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you can walk in the cloister and hazard to asks some wise one about strange, until you know the truth, Perl's feature (like the uppercaseness of %ENV's keys on win32, or the prefilled input using Term::ReadLine), or hear discussion about storing log as video file to enjoy the compression, or whisper about hexagonal tessellation in Tk and having back a working program in two days..<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you can search back in the time and find old answer that still works for an enormous amount of problems.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you can rediscover that Perl programmers are still humans (minus some one that only play one on Earth server): may be one day someone is nervous or sad or upset.. but everyday is here creatively.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> I have meet a lot of people; the monastery was my only netplace ever. Some monk is lost during this years, few one physically too.. we miss them all.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> I discovered the escathological doctrine of Perl6 (i heard it can write bytecode to stones for a geological later retrieve..) waiting the future revenge of Perl on the rest of the IT.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> I saw little hashes grow and reference themselves and become objects, blessed by Some::Class, and object becomes transparent, translucent, singletons or insideout ones (it everytime remind me the poor babuin of 'the Fly' movie..).. and as you turn your eyes:"Eeek a Moose!".<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you can have the folgoration that Perl let you to be near the compiler so you can evaluates what you want (arbitrium).<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you learn how laziness is an hard work.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b>, if you are hungry, you go down in the kitchen and choose some DBI recipe that suit your taste.<BR><BR>
<b>Here</b> you wake up and peoples from everywhere greet you with a "good localtime(time)!".<BR><BR>
<i><small>So monks i very pleased this Ten Years... Thank you to all!<BR>Urrah! Urrah! Sto Lat!<BR></small></i><BR><BR>
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