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<span>  </span>What's this about laziness? Isn't that a pejorative way to describe luminaries of the Perl universe?<br><br>
<span>  </span>Actually, no; they'd take it as a compliment.<br><br><span> </span><b>The three principal virtues of Perl programmers:</b>
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<li><b>Laziness</b>: "Hard work" sounds, well, hard. If you're faced with a
mindless, repetitive task--such as running for public office--then
laziness will make you balk at doing the same thing over and over
again. Instead of stifling your creative spirit, you'll cultivate it
by inventing a process that automates the repetitive task. If the
Karate Kid had been a Perl programmer, he'd have abstracted the
common factor from "wax on" and "wax off" shortly before fetching an
orbital buffer. (Only to get, er, waxed, in the tournament from being
out of shape. But I digress.)</li>
<li><b>Impatience</b>: There's more than enough work to do in this business. By
being impatient to get to the next thing quickly, you'll not spend
unnecessary time on the task you're doing; you'll find ways to make
it as efficient as possible.</li>
<li><b>Hubris</b>: It's not good enough to be lazy and impatient if you're going
to take them as an excuse to do lousy work. You need an unreasonable
amount of pride in your abilities to carry you past the many causes
for discouragement. If you didn't, and you thought about all the
things that could go wrong with your code, you'd either never get out
of bed in the morning, or just quit and take up potato farming.</li>
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<tt>--Larry Wall</tt>
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<p>About me -- should anyone give a s{...}t.</p>
<p>In my youth, I used to make SuperComputers, well, processors. Which were comprised of capacitors, <i>many</i> of them. <i>Do note</i>, this was back before the dawn of the now, common place transistor, <i>and</i>, the PC.</p>
<p>Later, of course. I used transistors.</p>
<p>Owned, and operated one of the first BBS's (3rd I think) on the west coast.</p>
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Had fiber hauled up to my house, and used a "fido tosser" to permit BBS users to exchange email over the internet.</p>
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From there, I became a hostmaster. Which then, largely consisted of being a DNS provider. Which, back then, meant compiling a list of inter-connected computers, by name, and exchanging them by Email. Yep. That's the way it was done, back then. I remain both today. Average ~160 domains, and ~12,000 hosts, and <i>no</i> I don't handle DNS that way today. ;)</p>
<p>Perl e<b>xp</b>erience:<br>
Used Perl near exclusively, back in the 4x days. As well as the early 5x days, and I was <u>very</u> good at it. An artist. But then, became distracted by, ahem, PHP. I'm somewhat embarrassed by this, except to the extent I learned that no matter how hard I try. I <i>cannot</i> make PHP as powerful, or as do-all, as Perl. PHP is a lightweight scripting tool -- nothing more.</p>
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After my epiphany, regarding PHP. I stopped using Perl, as well, and began work on a new DNS resolver, using the C language -- assembler was my first language, so C was already a familiar language. After completion. I spent good deal of time testing, and improving it. I'm pleased to say, it's faster, safer, and smaller, than any other resolver available today. :)</p>
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Perl today.<br>
Well, I'm back using Perl as my "daily driver". But it's been a <i>long</i> while. As you might imagine, things have changed <i>alot</i>. There's now this thing called "OO" that the Perl community, seems to insist is "it". While I'm not convinced, I see this as the direction it will continue to travel. So I'll roll with it. Perl <i>itself</i> has also changed greatly. I'm trying to catch up. But have a ways to go. At this stage, where Perl is concerned; I'm either <i>brilliant</i>, or an <i>idiot</i>. There's no in between. :P</p>
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Well. There you have it. I'm surprised you read this far. :)<br>
Best wishes to you.</p>
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--Chris out...
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