note robsku <p>I had hard time choosing between 5th and 6th, but even though it's been a large number of hours since I first tried writing perl (in 2002 when I switched from Windows (95) to Linux (Red Hat 7.1) I do think that 5th fits better to how I think of Perl - the number of hours is simply because there is *so much* you can learn but it pales in comparison to how little it took to achieve stuff much more complex in other languages which I had in total studied longer then than I have perl today.</p> <p>I have learned only little more that I can achieve than I could with other languages back then, but there's a huge number of things I didn't think of being possible without complex hard work and a lot of code that I now can with perl - which also has, as side effect, taught me ways to less complex ways to achieve same with any language but that are still easyer in perl than in most others.</p> <p>About the 6th - the word "investment" in my case wouldn't mean investment in monetary sense and I would like to see perl as in-demand language mostly because it would make many things easier for me personally (not the least being having to code with PHP simply because I wan't to use wordpress on my site and extend it's functionality - I didn't choose it for the language it was made with but the fact that what reasons I chose it for are more important than what I have to code in to extend it doesn't lessen the grief experienced when coding in PHP).</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-898445"> <a href="">HackNBlog - Linux/*nix, programming & digital freedoms centered blog</a>.<br/> Back since early 2011 with new address, same content.<br/> Peace&Love, Jani "robsku" Saksa </div></div> 1026502 1026502