It was my first exposure to dynamic programming languages (unless you consider BASIC one). I started out on BASIC on an Amiga 500 then C on my first DOS 386 computer (I just wanted to learn to make games). I came across Perl in my final year of high-school when at a co-op placement with a local web development shop. The school taught Pascal and a little-known language called, Turing. Scalars were super-cool by that point.
It's amazing to see how far things have come and that Perl continues to get better despite the downward trend in its popularity in recent years.
It was my first exposure to dynamic programming languages (unless you consider BASIC one). I started out on BASIC on an Amiga 500 then C on my first DOS 386 computer (I just wanted to learn to make games). I came across Perl in my final year of high-school when at a co-op placement with a local web development shop. The school taught Pascal and a little-known language called, Turing. Scalars were super-cool by that point.
It's amazing to see how far things have come and that Perl continues to get better despite the downward trend in its popularity in recent years.
Here's to another 26! :)