Comment by agentultra

I enjoyed how witty and charming the community was back in the 90s when I was into Perl.

I had a similar path to Perl as a lot of people here. I was making games and into C when I learned about Linux from a friend. From there I heard about Perl and started using it to automate making my websites… those halcyon days before someone started calling them “web logs,” and later, “blogs,” etc.

Text munching and slinging around files was much easier in Perl than it was in C and I became a big fan.

The community was awesome. And the books were great.

I feel like Perl embodied that hipster-Socialist Bazaar style moment in programming/tech.