note robsku <p>I had hard time choosing between 5th and 6th, but
even though it's been a large number of hours since I first
tried writing perl (in 2002 when I switched from Windows (95) to
Linux (Red Hat 7.1) I do think that 5th fits better to how I
think of Perl - the number of hours is simply because there is
*so much* you can learn but it pales in comparison to how little
it took to achieve stuff much more complex in other languages
which I had in total studied longer then than I have perl
today.</p> <p>I have learned only little more that I can achieve
than I could with other languages back then, but there's a huge
number of things I didn't think of being possible without
complex hard work and a lot of code that I now can with perl -
which also has, as side effect, taught me ways to less complex
ways to achieve same with any language but that are still easyer
in perl than in most others.</p> <p>About the 6th - the word
"investment" in my case wouldn't mean investment in monetary
sense and I would like to