When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

• Hashes
• The built-in memory management (no more malloc and free calls!)
• Autovivification
• The cool testing infrastructure
• The community/the conferences
• Other features (list below)

• Regexes
  map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

• DWIM

o DBI module and friends for database interface

(Edit) Sorry, this reply should be under Talexb's post.

Reparented by Athanasius

"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."

• The off-line manuals
• Conversion awk -> perl, sed -> perl and other tools
• Error messages
• Readability / maintanability
• Versatility (Swiss Chainsaw)
• The Community (help availability)
• All of the above

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

while perlmonks.com-connection was refused, perlmonks.org did work. does this answer your question sufficiently?
(my previous writing lacks formatting because it was stripped ...)

I've lost too many brain cells since I started using perl to remember why I started using perl (of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.) It was probably the string handling or report capabilities (format) or maybe the ability to get a lot done with just a little code.

90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒

dragonchild

This just came up in Re: PerlMonks .com .net .org Why so many?: Which URL do you use to access this site?

So to format it in the normal poll-idea format, listing options for the pollsters to easily copy/paste (including my suggested extras, beyond the six in the linked post):

Which URL do you use to access this site?

• https://www.perlmonks.com/
• https://perlmonks.com/
• https://www.perlmonks.net/
• https://perlmonks.net/
• https://www.perlmonks.org/
• https://perlmonks.org/
• All six URLs have me logged in
• The three the non-www URLs have me logged in
• The three www.* URLs have me logged in
• One is my normal account, one is my sockpuppet, one is ...
• https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl: URL includes index.pl
• https://66.39.54.27
• https://216.92.34.251
• https://XYZZY.pair.com/, where XYZZY depends on pair's mood
• Whichever URL my search engine of choice links me to for a given result
• Other (describe below)

updates: incorporate suggestions below to keep a single copy/paste list

• https://66.39.54.27
• https://216.92.34.251
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl including index.pl


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Now there's the dilemma of authorship - talexb had the idea, but you did the hard work. We don't really have a good solution for this.

Also bear in mind all of this has to fit in the Voting Booth nodelet, so having fewer options is usually better.

Server log files are better than a poll for that.

Server log files are better than a poll for that.

Only if you actually think that polls are for trying to find the truth, as opposed to...

...say, act as a kind of social glue on the site to spark discussions, tales, and command line war stories to come to light.

Cheers, Sören

Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
(hooked on the Perl Programming language)