Damian is right about SelfGol; it is excruciatingly diabolical. It evidences a skill in Perl compression and obfuscation far beyond my own. My work with Perl has mostly been under the hood, so to speak. Knowing your car can help you be a good driver, but it won't turn you into Evel Knievel. Damian's coding stunts left his TPC5 audience, myself included, in awe.

But more basic forces were also at work that day. As every teacher learns, nothing quite motivates a roomful of students to cleverness like the thrill of catching the teacher in a mistake.

Come to think of it, Damian mentioned early in that very presentation that he had recently enjoyed catching Jeffrey Friedl--regex guru nonpareil--in a regex error. Did Damian's own anecdote plant a seed in my mind, which then bore fruit when I noticed his error? Who can know....

    -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

In reply to Re (chip): Re5: Technical Interview by chip
in thread Technical Interview by jonjacobmoon

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