Due to the number of subjects there is not a single grade you could send people to. You can be an experienced developer with several big projects under the belt and still know nothing about unix/windows/mac/xxx 'cause you've spent all the time using xxx/mac/windows/unix. Likewise you may have spent the whole time using graphical UIs and IDEs or you've started with a prompt and are used to CLIs and text mode interfaces. Either is possible and neither should prevent you from starting with Perl. Or even just make it harder to start with Perl.

There is not a single path of learning nor a single goal. And your geekcode would have to be much more complex than this. Even if you kept it on topic for PerlMonks :-)

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