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<node id="1008982" title="Re: Forgetting Syntax, Forgetting logic, Heck, Should I even try keep learning Perl??" created="2012-12-15 08:40:15" updated="2012-12-15 08:40:15">
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&lt;blockquote&gt;Heck. I dunno what to do.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just do it. It is possible - if you want it. I did it just some years ago - one year after i used a computer for the first time in my live ( i'm 56 now). Before i relied on paper and pencil and considered computers as rubbish.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Same thing with Unix. Some day my boss came and said: "Karl, can you do this and that on this machine?". The OS was AIX. I had no plan, the only OS i knew at that time was NT. So i learned some shell commands by the hard way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Before i started bothering myself with computers i had another career: i was a musician. Playing  baroque chamber music, teaching a.s.o.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Very often my pupils asked me similar questions: "I'm this and that... and can i really...?". I always answered: Yes, just do it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Proof: Just some time ago i met a piano player, about 40 years++ old. When he was ~35, his very wish was to become an expert in &lt;a  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comping"&gt;comping&lt;/a&gt;. So he went to &lt;a href="http://www.berklee.edu"&gt;Berklee&lt;/a&gt; and just did it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps and best regards, Karl&lt;/p&gt;
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