While many people have asked questions about how to teach Perl or where to learn it, an email today on the Perl Advocacy list mentioned a college professor that was not only teaching Perl, but was surprised by the overwhelming demand for it. You read about the course, if you're curious. In just browsing through it, I noticed a few things that were a bit odd, but all in all, it seemed far better than most material out there. Here's one of the questions from a quiz:

 # Given:

 sub pair {
     my @out = ();
     for (my $i=0; $i<@_; $i+=2) {
         push(@out,[$_[$i],$_[$i+1]]);
     }
     return @out;
 }

# What is the value of the expression 

 map { &{$_->[1]}($_->[2]) ? $_->[0] : () }
 map { [$_->[0],$_->[1],'meowmoo'] } 
 &pair ( 'cat' => sub { $_[0] =~ /meow/ }, 
         'dog' => sub { $_[0] =~ /arf/ }, 
         'cow' => sub { $_[0] =~ /moo/ } )

# in an array context?
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Reading through the course information is quite interesting. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Ovid

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