But some people (yours truly) learnt Perl as their first 'web' scripting language in Year10 at highschool.. and produced the backend scripts that now power this site: www.operation-scifi.com
although somewhat outdated now and not as effecient as the huge experience and knowledge I now have with PHP/mySQL it was still quite ground breaking for me to write my own Perl forum and member management routines at 16 years old..
I am very proud of it as it now boasts a system of 280+ members and in the vicinity of 16000 posts [see: http://operation-scifi.com/forum/info.php]
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True, true..
But some people (yours truly) learnt Perl as their first 'web' scripting language in Year10 at highschool.. and produced the backend scripts that now power this site: www.operation-scifi.com
although somewhat outdated now and not as effecient as the huge experience and knowledge I now have with PHP/mySQL it was still quite ground breaking for me to write my own Perl forum and member management routines at 16 years old..
I am very proud of it as it now boasts a system of 280+ members and in the vicinity of 16000 posts [see: http://operation-scifi.com/forum/info.php]
Well.. 'nuff said.