My name's Steve Marvell and I'm Proud to Use Perl.
I remember a day in the final term of University, some 13 years ago, when I asked a good friend of mine what I should learn next. He said "Learn Perl Steve" and so I did. This would have been around the time that Perl 5 came out. I learnt it with a pocket guide, at work and did some quite exciting things with next to no code. I was hooked.
Since then, I've worked pretty much exclusively with Perl for all manner of projects including Information Retrieval, Fraud Detection and Statistical Genetics. I presently run a small software engineering company which works almost exclusively with Perl.
I have been an on and off user of Perl Monks and started the Devon and Cornwall Perl Mongers user group which is pretty tiny, to say the least.
I've done quite a bit of book reviewing for O'Reilly and Manning and have an extra special mention in O'Reilly's Perl Graphics Programming, which I'm very proud of.
I remember a day in the final term of University, some 13 years ago, when I asked a good friend of mine what I should learn next. He said "Learn Perl Steve" and so I did. This would have been around the time that Perl 5 came out. I learnt it with a pocket guide, at work and did some quite exciting things with next to no code. I was hooked.
Since then, I've worked pretty much exclusively with Perl for all manner of projects including Information Retrieval, Fraud Detection and Statistical Genetics. I presently run a small software engineering company which works almost exclusively with Perl.
I have been an on and off user of Perl Monks and started the Devon and Cornwall Perl Mongers user group which is pretty tiny, to say the least.
I've done quite a bit of book reviewing for O'Reilly and Manning and have an extra special mention in O'Reilly's Perl Graphics Programming, which I'm very proud of.
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