in reply to RFC: Self Assessment Perl

That’s a wonderful list that neatly condenses down many things that took me a couple of years to learn. One gotcha I might suggest, probably as an adjunct to something existing or perhaps as a part of “Passing arguments.”

moo@cow[49]~>perl -le 'print ( 1 + 2 ) / 2'
3

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Oh, and command line switches would be extremely valuable. Say what you want about Perl v Python v Ruby v Go v Scala, et cetera, but Perl on the command line is a game changer for anyone willing to take it up.

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Re^2: RFC: Self Assessment Perl
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 05, 2018 at 19:20 UTC
    > That’s a wonderful list that neatly condenses down many things that took me a couple of years to learn.

    Thanks, I somehow wanted to nail down mental coordinates of the "Perl hyper space". But just dropping words wouldn't help because most people would just assume something and nod.

    But asking a question puts them under stress and motivates them to rethink and gives an incentive to do some research.

    And at least I can point to that list next time people "try to misunderstand" me in meetings... ;-D

    > print ( 1 + 2 ) / 2

    I could add this to "precedence"

    > command line switches

    Unfortunately it's a very stubborn windows context here at $job$, i.e. really working with a shell/cmd is out of scope for most of our team ...

    I know the list is incomplete ...

    ( actually I was sure I also mentioned autovivification, but somehow this extended list got lost ) ...

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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