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For me personally, my boss on my first co-op work term gave me an outdated Perl script I needed to update and translate to Java. I said "I don't know Perl", and he handed me the Camel Book.

I found Perl somewhat odd at first, coming from a Java viewpoint. I was worried that loose typing would "guess wrong" and use a number where I meant a string or vice versa. Also, subroutine parameters being passed as a flat array was a little mind-bending.

But I made the translation. As I did so, I became increasingly astonished and then appalled by the size difference. The final Java was missing a major block of features that were deemed unnecessary, and it was still nearly 500 lines to the 180 of Perl.

So I learned from the Camel Book, and the PerlMonks Tutorials, as well as other threads on the monastery and of course the perldocs. I later read Higher Order Perl, and it broadened my mind with functional programming concepts. More recent forays into Haskell have done so even more, and I am now grateful for Perl's tasty blend of functional and imperative concepts.

As to my schooling, Perl has always been a dirty secret. They would never actually countenance teaching something so vulgar, but if you corner one of the profs they'll admit that it's an essential tool.

In reply to Re: The Road to Enlightenment? by bradenshep
in thread The Road to Enlightenment? by DigitalKitty

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