in reply to Returning to Perl after almost 3 decades

If you are coming back to perl after 30 years, I would not worry about all the new stuff. Just get a basic handle on the language. If you have that you are probably good. If an interviewer asks about some new syntax, just say you don't know.
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Re^2: Returning to Perl after almost 3 decades
by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Aug 17, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

    ... "yet".

    I feel it helps to point out, that we're never too old to learn the new tricks.

    Cheers, Sören

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