The Perl of Prestatyn
17 January 2010
I’ve been thinking for a little while that I should try to give my brain some more appropriate exercise. All the thinking I’ve been doing for months has been survival stuff, or introspection. In the end, I’ve ended up with my head hurting but I’ve not developed. At this rate I’m going to end up 30 going on 70 by the end of the year. To get fully better I must get my head working again!
The really obvious thing to do is to set myself some programming tasks. I’ve got loads of itches to scratch, which means it doesn’t have to be “wasted” time. Not that there’s anything wasted about mental exercise, of course. But I’ve been worrying about what language to work in. Surely I should learn something new? Or apply a skill I’ve underused?
What a stupid thing to worry about. I’m not currently looking for work. I don’t have any agenda other than my own. So, you know what, I’m going to write something in Perl. I don’t know what I’m going to write, but I’ve picked a language. I’m good at Perl. Much better chance of ending up with a sense of achievement.
Let’s just hope there’s a chip pan.
24 January 2010 at 7:13 pm
If you run out of itches, here’s a suggestion: there was a thread on UA recently about programming languages for teaching kids to code. As far as I can tell, nobody came up with a really good answer.
I think you should create one :-)
24 January 2010 at 7:20 pm
Interesting idea. Can’t let that compilers specialism go to waste, can I? :)