Another week to reminisce and Perl

This week again passed in a blur as I learn to cope with my new life , working , earning, attending meetings etc(actually nothing else, the etc is just to reassure myself that a lot more things were accomplished). I have seriously started the journey to attain mastery in Perl. The only scripting language I know a bit is javascript but somehow it does not seem to have the geekiness quotient that the word Perl evokes in you. This place is a great source of Oreilly‘s Perl resources.

The best thing amongst the stuff that i have come to know about Perl is the “non declaration of variables ” aspect. Reminds me of FORTRAN ( ofcourse you can declare but there are implicit variables). Yes I have coded in FORTRAN and learnt the ABC’s of coding with BASIC (the GW flavour). And (this brings tears to my eyes) I was forced to code in COBOL (forced as in ———-> syllabus created by knucleheads when they were salivating lechers and kept unchanged even when they became older salivating lechers——–> implication ——> students forced to struggle with 40 lines of header code to write 2 lines of code).

I am looking forward to a weekend spent reading a great book by Sir Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind which seeks to find a theory that seeks to delve into the amalgamation of consciousness, space, time, computational theories, maths , physics. Lip smacking stuff and the excitement is hair raising.

I shall be starting on a real project from next week. Right now in office it is docs, Winamp radio and Raaga that sustain me. I am trying to reduce my coffee intake and my incessant browsing. Also planning to get a guitar this weekend. More about music when I get the guitar.