Today was a very productive day. First half of the day I was doing PHP programming like mad. Second half of the day – perl. Perl feels like a releif after PHP. Hashes, regexps with =~, proper foreach loops…Yummy! Moved some of the production staff off from my workstation onto a server (poor thing!).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Today was a very productive day. First half of the day I was doing PHP programming like mad. Second half of the day – perl. Perl feels like a releif after PHP. Hashes, regexps with =~, proper foreach loops…Yummy! 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