Re^7: Multiple values for a single key

[stevieb]

Thanks for the reference perldigious!

I too like the look and feel of Perl code. From my own personal experience, it was the sigil stuff when dealing with references that gets most people and turns them away. A few years ago, I wrote yet another reference tutorial to kind of combat that in hopes just one more read from another perspective would help those that have reached that 'hump'.

However, once refs are understood and you grasp them, then there isn't another programming language that I haven't been able to learn since. C, C++, Python, Javascript/jQuery, C# etc. I believe firmly that if I hadn't of tried to figure out that accounting system in Perl in my early years and picked up that "Perl in 21 days" book off of the shelf, I may not have become a coder at all.

ps. I used to use the statement "I am not a programmer" for many years. Now I proudly claim that I'm not necessarily a programmer, but I can definitely code. All thanks to the Swiss Army Chainsaw.