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~tffb

hey ~ew!

That's a fair amount of education/training/experience! :)

I remember hearing of Perl back when my brother-in-law graduated college in the early-90s, and I remember looking at one of his textbooks and reading *about* Perl and thinking: "that is complexity on a stick right there!", lmao! IDK if I would ever learn/need Perl in my life.

Which distro of Linux are you using, by the way? Always curious as to what distro people are using, at the time of their reply, lol!

Thanks for the response!

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~ew wrote:

Howdy, ~tffb!

perl: I still use perl once in a while. I never got the hang of python.

Linux: I started out with Suse (ca. 2000) then someone gave me Debian 2.2 potato --- I never looked back! Then came the day where OpenSuse was a thing at $dayjob. But my current job also involves Debian. I have dabbled with Gentoo, tiny core linux, and more recently alpinelinux. This last one is a thing i like for its minimalism. I can install a perfectly usable system without python and even perl! Very nice!

Cheers,

~ew