It sounds like what you're saying is that you've identified and learned the core set of functions and operators that you need to use on a daily basis to get your work done. If those 64 functions are all you need, then thank Perl for being so powerful. :)

Thoroughly seconded, although it would be fair to remind that there are also some functions like study and reset which are hardly useful nowadays, if they've ever been. Actually I was quite surprised when I discovered them.

I don't think there is anything wrong with knowing only a subset of a language.

I don't know for "a language", although I suppose that in most cases it is so, however that is certainly the case by design with Perl, as $Larry himself wrote. Of course, if you use it regularly and learn more and more along the way, you will become e more refined and knowledgeable "speaker".

In fact, I would guess very few people (i.e., the true gurus) really know all Perl has to offer.

I would dare to push that as far as to say that even true gurus have different areas of expertise and may not really know all that Perl has to offer.

In reply to Re^2: functional functions by blazar
in thread functional functions by punkish

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