Re: Ask Perlmonks: What should be included in an "Advanced Perl Independent Study"?

What have you found to be the best way of learning things that you haven't been required to get the job done???

I point people towards obfuscated perl programs (good ones) as a great way of learning new features and thinking about things in a new way. Good obfuscation will bend and twist all the usual rules, forcing you to really learn the limits, normal uses, abnormal uses, and sheer abuse of common and not-so-common features of the language.

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Re: Re: Ask Perlmonks: What should be included in an "Advanced Perl Independent Study"? by Adam (Vicar) on Jan 23, 2001 at 01:18 UTC
Hehe, I was just thinking, and take this as you will, but it would be mighty amusing if you include a small obfuscation as the footer^* on each page of your paper that you will submit at the end of the term. I assume that you will write some kind of paper, be it a description of what you did or some an actual research paper, and this might make it a little more fun, and provide examples of the nuances of Perl. ^*Specifically, a different obfuscation on each page. I would not suggest coming up with all of them yourself either. Some - yes! - but not all. There are plenty of good one or two line obfuscations here that use various cool tricks, and you could use those. (with permission, of course!)	[reply]

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Re: Re: Ask Perlmonks: What should be included in an "Advanced Perl Independent Study"?
by Adam (Vicar) on Jan 23, 2001 at 01:18 UTC

^*Specifically, a different obfuscation on each page. I would not suggest coming up with all of them yourself either. Some - yes! - but not all. There are plenty of good one or two line obfuscations here that use various cool tricks, and you could use those. (with permission, of course!)

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