Colin M. Strickland wrote: > On 10 May 2008, at 10:49, Alex Francis wrote: > > >> I used to work at Sift and I think I'm the fourth perl person to move >> from Sift to IMDb. >> > > I was the second. I've been dabbling with perl since I started at > Sift, while they were still a tiny startup (I was something silly like > employee #14), and was handed a camel book on my first day having no > prior knowledge of it really, alhough I had quite a lot of awk and C > which helped.
Glad you joined us :-) > From there to a longer stint at Amazon/IMDb, and > subsequently I've been doing my own thing for a year or two, primarily > as a Macintosh developer. I've done quite a lot of work with > relational databases, and I dabble with other languages as well, but > perl is usually at the head of the shortlist when I'm thinking of > whipping something up. > In my experience not putting Perl at the top of your shortlist only means you'll end up re-coding it in Perl later ;-) > I was also on the old list, and around at Sift when they had the > domain and stuff, but it was always fairly moribund, as I recall. > I have to say that so far I think this list is doing really well! Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
