It has been almost 11 months since I first opened the camel book. The following are a few things I like about Perl right now.
Perl...
- ...quickly secured me a job when my former employer (an Internet startup) went under.
- ...has given me the tools to write CGI and sysadmin scripts that (hopefully) make people's lives (my own included) just a bit easier.
- ...showed me that someone like Larry Wall exists, giving me that rare opportunity to have a man I can look at and say, "I want to be like him."
- ...introduced me to programming and, at least for now, programming is what I love to do.
