14.2. The End
We close by expanding on a theme from Chapter 2. When we asked ourselves why some people work on their skills, exercise their curiosity, and try new things whereas others don't, the bottom line has to do with love. The reason people work constantly on improving Perl, with no direct compensation, is simply that they love programming and they love Perl.
More than any other language, Perl inspires this dedication because of the way its design embodies the principles that programming should be fun and the language should do what you want. Perl is a fun language.[1] Fun to use, to learn, and to improve. As we said in Chapter 1, a relative amateur can use Perl to solve real-world problems. Perhaps this fact best demonstrates the language's ...
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