http://www.mindfuliterations.com/articles/2008/04/30/transitioning-back-to-perl en-us 40 aka babygeek once said... <p>This week I&#39;ve gotten back into writing, er maintaining, code that is written in perl.&nbsp; I&#39;ve worked exclusively on Ruby and Rails projects for the last several months, never touching anything written in perl.&nbsp; I have to say - I never realized just how much Rails does for you and just how logical some of those conventions are.&nbsp;</p><p>I am excited about getting back into another language.&nbsp; I feel like I&#39;m going to be learning perl all over again, though.&nbsp; This time with a bit of a different lens on my view.&nbsp; Ruby is a very elegant language in a lot of ways.&nbsp; Because I dabbled in Ruby on and off for a while before getting into it seriously, I feel as though it was really easy for me to get things done. </p><p>With Perl, I feel as though I&#39;m walking on eggshells.&nbsp; Perhaps that&#39;s normal.&nbsp; Afterall, I don&#39;t know if I&#39;ve even really touched anything in perl since last year.&nbsp; So, I&#39;ve decided that I&#39;m going to go through some of the exercises in my Learning Perl book, and get my feet wet again.</p><p>Being that I&#39;m uncomfortable with the change, it tells me that it&#39;s probably a good one.&nbsp; </p> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:02:00 -0500 urn:uuid:dac8617c-19b4-4dd0-a651-dc436f5249cd samantha http://www.mindfuliterations.com/articles/2008/04/30/transitioning-back-to-perl geek programming perl ruby rails http://www.mindfuliterations.com/articles/trackback/168