In my former life, I was a web application developer. I stopped doing that full-time in 2007 when I transitioned to teaching full-time. Obviously, in the intervening 16 (!) years, things have changed.

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...