Studying Perl5 was a solitary pursuit. The language has nearly died after its prominence in the early 20's and late 90's. Though it is still maintained it seems like a dead language compared to other languages with more activity. I liked its arcane abstruse syntax and the hundreds of switches or flags that were possible. You could write really obfsucated stuff but it never amounted to much for myself. I never wrote anything impactful in Perl5 just more searching for programming trivia off of the websites like www.perlmonks.com. Maybe if I had gotten into bioinformatics then Perl5 skills could really shine. I never used Perl5 in Linux Administration which is the last vestigial trace you can find Perl5 scripts still in use. I took a gander of Perl6 which is called Raku now and that was a truly modern programming language with language constructs ahead of its time. With the passing of Larry Wall I imagine the vision of Raku still lives in some form. What do I know? I was no code ninja on legacy code. I liked Perl5's quarkiness. But I have traded everything by going deep into Python3 into the C code of the interpreter to take a peek of what happens underneath the hood proverbially speaking. Python3 is alive. Perl5 seemed stuffy and out of date or perhaps a zombie in some ways waiting to be put out of its misery. Though it was my love language the little perlisms that can grow on you but now the knowledge atrophied and withered away subsumed by other programming languages like bits of x86 Assembly and C and Golang. Maybe I should have been a COBOL cowboy rustling through the old code bases of banks and financial services. That would have been more lucrative. At last I ultimately am an idiot, my dear reader, as my writing is my testament to my own stupidity. I tried and failed and have to move onto other possibilities though I do not want to move on but DOR is pushing me forward into EKG Technician training. There is little reporting on Geo Group. The next quarterly report is in mid Janaury to see the facts and figures of their business like detention center occupancy and new federal contracts. You can go to usaspending.gov to find the new ICE funding windfall.

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