Re: Perl Purity Test (For Update)

Some things not covered...

... used a module from the Acme:: namespace?
... used a module from the Acme:: namespace in a production environment?
... used more than one module from the Acme namespace, in the same script?
... written a module in the Acme namespace?
... used a lexical closure?
... used an array or hash of lexical closures?
... used lexical closures that return other lexical closures?
... written an article published in a magazine devoted to Perl?
... written a regular column for a magazine devoted to Perl?
... written an article published on the O'Reilly Perl site?
... written a regular column for the O'Reilly Perl site?
... spoken face-to-face with Larry's wife?
... subscribed to perl6-language?
... subscribed to perl6-internals?
... subscribed to perl6-compiler?
... regularly summarized any of the perl6 mailing lists?
... written an RFC for Perl6?
... used a version of Perl prior to Perl4?
... used a custom-compiled version of Perl5 (e.g., with the defined-or operator)?
... become frustrated because a certain CPAN module was not installed on a production system, and in your view should have been?
... become frustrated because a certain CPAN module was too out-of-date on a production system, and needed to be ugraded?
... written your own Bundle:: module to assist with installing all of your requirements from the CPAN on multiple computers?
... created your own CPAN mirror to assist with keeping all of your systems up to date?
... run a public CPAN mirror?
... used a text editor with a Perl interpreter embedded in it, similar to the lisp interpreter in Emacs?
... written an application with a Perl interpreter embedded in it?
... created a compiler (for any language) that targets the Parrot vm?
... created, or committed more than 500 lines of code to, a Perl6 compiler?
... gotten anxious for an upcoming Perl6 feature, then found and used a module from the CPAN that implements it in Perl5?
... implemented a major feature of Perl6 in a module for Perl5?
... used Inline?
... used Inline::Pugs?
... dreamed about Perl?
... dreamed in Perl?
... fantasized about Perl during the day?
... kept more than one version of perl installed on the same computer at the same time (e.g., 5.6 and 5.8 in different directories)?
... installed modules from the CPAN in a private directory when you don't have admin privileges to install them for the whole system?
... installed perl in a private directory, when you don't have admin privileges to install it for the whole system?
... taken a piece of Perl obfuscation that someone else wrote and golfed it down by more than 10%?
... chained more than five list transformations (e.g., map, grep, sort) end-to-end, for non-obfuscatory purposes?
... used map to transform a list of anonymous subroutines?
... nested map more than two levels deep?
... deliberately used map in void context?
... deliberately used grep in void context?
... deliberately used sort in void context?
... deliberately used map, grep, or sort in void context, for non-obfuscatory purposes?
... written a module for the sole purpose of creating an object-oriented interface for an extant module that wasn't object-oriented?
... written a module for the sole purpose of creating a non-object-oriented interface for an extant module that was object-oriented?
... become the official maintainer of a CPAN module that you did not originally create?
... looked in a CPAN author's PAUSE upload folder for a new version of a module that had not yet reached any of the other CPAN systems?
... and found it, and had it installed before the rest of CPAN picked it up?
... corrected Larry, Randal, or Tom on some Perl-related point, and been right?
... written a regular expression more than ten lines long, excluding comments?
... stored compiled regular expressions as part of a larger data structure?
... written a custom internet server (e.g., webserver, mailserver, proxy, ...) in Perl, and used it in a production environment?
... implemented recursion by having a script exec itself?
... written a Perl program that makes extensive use of fork?
... written a Perl program that makes extensive use of threads?
... used POE?
... written a device driver in Perl?
... broken Universal::ISA?
... understood how the output of Acme::Eyedrops works?
... gotten a job using a resume that contains the word "Perl" (or "perl") more than five times?
... introduced someone else to Perl who was not previously familiar with it?
... taught a class in Perl?

Sanity? Oh, yeah, I've got all kinds of sanity. In fact, I've developed whole new kinds of sanity. Why, I've got so much sanity it's driving me crazy.

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