mjevans

I've had occassions to post a post like this a number of times in the past over a lot of years but I've resisted until now. I have little experience of other programming languages in forums/IRC/blogs etc recently because these days I've largely written Perl and PL/SQL but in the past before the WWW was prevelant I programmed in Fortran, Pascal, C, Macro 32, VMS, Z80, 8086, 6502 etc before I volunteered to port a large code base from VMS to UNIX.

I've had over 30+ years (not all perl) a massive amount of help and support from PerlMonks, irc.perl.org and forums like dbi-users/dbi-dev/db…