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Ya, I don't know. I can think of few things more fleeting or temporary than a computer program.
Some simple stone masons built the frame of my house about a century ago. Their work is likely to still contribute to the character of a community another century from now. The Perl code I wrote today,on the other hand. will be erased and long forgotten before babies born this same day finish high school. Hope that gets nobody's shorts in a knot - but it's a fact of life that except for really exceptional creations, like inventing Perl, programming is probably the least likely road to creating anything lasting or worth being remembered for. That said, it is the lot in life of most techies to make infinitesmal contributions to progress that will never be recognized by more than the week's paycheck. In reply to Re^3: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
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