Hmmm...
- For the first 2 (of 4) years I have been using perl, I would have given you a blank stare at "Schwartzian transform". I hope your question is to give them a snippet of code and ask them to explain the snippet.
- Simple syntax questions are good for telling the difference between a perl4 programmer and a perl5 programmer ... although I'm not sure you really get much out of it.
- I didn't really know anything about CPAN for the first year or so. Yet I was still turning out good, reliable code (I think), based solely on past experience in other languages (mostly C++).
- Again, dumb stares for about my first 2.5 years. Although, admittedly, if you had given me a snippet inside the first 12-18 months, I wouldn't have been able to answer that question, either.
- My answer, still today, would be, "I don't know how to parse CGI params." You'd ask how I got any CGI experience on my resume, and I'd simply say, "I use the CGI module - but I don't know how to parse the CGI params."
- In short scripts, I don't always bother with strict, unless it doesn't work on the first try, or I'm posting it to perlmonks ;-)
I realise that you're just giving brief bullets on what you'd ask about, I'm just pointing out what I think could be misunderstandings which could mislead you into dismissing the wrong person (not to say that I'd be the right person, though ;-}).
I usually ask candidates to explain their past work, their roles in that work, what difficulties they've faced, how they've overcome it. But I've never interviewed for professional hires nor contractors - pretty much only students and new graduates (where working with us would be their first "real" job), and I am not restricted to perl (we use C/C++; Java; Perl; Bourne, Korn, and C shells, all depending on what we're doing), so what I'm looking for may be quite different from what the OP is looking for.
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