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Re: How has Perl affected you?

by wjw (Priest)
on Nov 06, 2017 at 10:40 UTC ( [id://1202808]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How has Perl affected you?

Perl and I came to be around 1992 or so as a part of modifying Gerber files used for various purposes in the printed circuit board industry. We ran mostly on Sun hardware at that time, and I was very new to programming.

It has been a long, interesting journey ever since and Perl has been there in my back pocket the whole time. We have wound our way through the PCB industry making electrical test, laser, router and other CNC/DNC type files. On into some similar work on IC packages, then into some web programming where we added MySQL and some PHP into the mix. But Perl remained the go-to, even as I moved on to working in automation where PLCs were the focus, I used Perl to analyze the data we gathered on the manufacturing floor. On into the world of integrating the manufacturing data with the order fulfillment and yield tracking of business systems via MES. Perl has been a constant.

My career is over now, and unlike so many other tools along the way, Perl has endured through the entire time since we introduced ourselves to each other. I still poke around with it, and discuss it here in the monastery.... just because I like it. It is an old friend. We don't need each other anymore, but travel together anyway because of a mutual respect I guess.

It is that longevity and flexibility that allowed me, a non-programmer in any real sense, to continue to learn and explore the other skill sets and knowledge required to do those jobs I had at one point or another.

What has it done for me? How did it change anything? -- It has been there the whole time, through all the changes in my thinking about how to approach problems. Perl does not drive change for me, Perl allows change...

...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it...

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