The purpose is to provide them with tools and resources that'll ease their first Perl adventures.
Well, first thing is knowledge, then the tools. Probably a demonstration of how to get things done
with perl comes first, and I'd go with the advice of BrowserUk for that. But since they are
programmers, I would - the knowledge part - talk about how perl is different:
- context, huffman coding, dwimmery
- data types (and references), namespaces, packages, scoping, bare metal OO system
- compile time vs. runtime, and switching back and forth
- BEGIN, CHECK, INIT ... END
and such. Perhaps firing up a gdb and examining the execution stack of the perl engine would give a good crack here.
Oh wait, it is a talk, not a hands-on workshop... ;-)
I'd trade Data::Dumper for Data::Dump::Streamer, and show B::Deparse, Devel::Peek, Devel::Leak::Object etc.,
CPAN of course, and lastly redirect them here.
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