On this date in 1987, Larry Wall released Perl to a newsgroup. For you non-geeks, this is the equivelant of celebrating the day that someone first demonstrated super glue to the masses.
Perl is one of my favorites. Honestly, I learned to script in Perl before I learned shell scripting in sh or ksh. My first tech job in the Army was big on Perl, so I learned Perl as I was learning to be a SysAd.
Perl is a bit of a jack of all trades scripting language, being good at a lot of things, but not as good at most of them as languages that are specialized. For example, a lot of Internet code used to be written in Perl, but most now is written in PHP or some other language that is specific to the web.
I get the feeling that I'll still be using Perl in one form or another for a long time.
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