Why I learnt Perl (was Let's organise a free teach-in)

[Chris Benson]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:16:02PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 
> What I'd be more interested in would be how and why people here learned
> Perl.  

For my why, see
http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2002/06/perl_success_story_how_i_met_t.html

As to the how: It's easy to learn the command names and syntax -- just
spend 10 years writing multi-thousand line shell scripts using at least
half the programs in a (SystemIII-era) /usr/bin.  I understand that this
method was fixed in >= v5.000.
-- 
Chris Benson