User since: Dec 26, 2002 at 07:12 UTC (23 years ago) Last here: Jul 07, 2020 at 18:27 UTC (5 years ago) Experience: 2270 Level: Chaplain (11) Writeups: 259 CPAN ID: TOMMY Location: omnipresent User's localtime: Oct 05, 2025 at 19:01 +06 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

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Motto

"Keep moving forward" Shake it off, and step up. There's progress to be made, and no time to waste dwelling on past failures.

Personal Philosophy

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice" *Note: I'm sorry for the times I wasn't nice.

A mistake can be valuable or costly, depending on how faithfully you pursue correction.

Why Perl?

In my view, the main things about Perl that make it better than any other language are...

• its Flexibility (letting you do things the way you want)
• its Community of friendly and extremely intelligent persons (perlmonks, irc.perl.org, comp.lang.perl.misc for example)
• its "Culture of good documentation"
• the CPAN (and all that it entails and implies)
• the license to use it in complete freedom

Monks I've met

• Mr. Muskrat
• nicholasrperez
• pmichaud
• brian_d_foy
• SirSpammenot

Links

• I agree with fullermd that it's too many clicks every time to find "What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?"
• It's helpful to be able to look at last hour of cb

Node Collection (needs work - alpha)

• The difference between "my $var;" and "my ($var);"

Silliness

The great ones say this isn't important...but I still think it's fun:

Mon, Dec 10, 2012 5:21:48 PM

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