Finally finished another intensive 4-day course in more advanced Perl this week. I have to say that Perl gets a little disappointing in the more advanced level. Making an object/class is kind of painful compared to more modern scripting language like PHP. And the CGI portion gets more ugly when it comes to having to edit multiple files in different directories…. or one can venture into using the dreadful CGI package. But luckily there’s Mason which runs on the server side and makes everything very PHP-like. Unfortunately it requires separate installation. And I am doubtful of its support on most web hosting services.
In any case, I am still glad I got to know as much Perl as I did. It’s another tool in my arsenal of scripting/programming languages for future gigs. Next on my list, C, C++, Java, Ruby on Rails, and hopefully someday, Objective-C/Cocoa!