Stages of a Perl Programmer

  1. Seven Stages of a Perl Programmer
  2. A Perl Novice...
  3. CGI and Perl
  4. Punctuation
  5. Perl vs sh/awk
  6. Unix mindset
  7. Input from the keyboard
  8. More from the keyboard
  9. Compiled vs interpreted
  10. CvI continued
  11. A Perl Initiate...
  12. Defaults
  13. More like C++ or Java
  14. Two different kinds of arrays
  15. Context
  16. Two for one
  17. A Perl User...
  18. Other peoples' modules
  19. CPAN navigation
  20. Wonders what an object is
  21. local vs my
  22. DATA
  23. DATA trick
  24. What are references for?
  25. A Perl Adept...
  26. use strict
  27. The strictures
  28. Cryptocontext
  29. Records and objects
  30. Flexibility of the object system
  31. Eval substitutions
  32. Typeglobs
  33. Module basics
  34. Importing and Exporting
  35. Regular expressions
  36. A Perl Hacker...
  37. Games
  38. Extension modules
  39. AUTOLOAD and closures
  40. Schwartzian Transform
  41. OO Flex
  42. POD translators
  43. Editors
  44. A Perl Guru...
  45. Knowing Perl
  46. Undocumented language features
  47. Opaque objects
  48. Compiled regexes
  49. Speeding it up
  50. Perl-to-C compiler
  51. Embedding the interpreter
  52. OOP without objects
  53. Patch pumpkin
  54. A Perl Wizard...
  55. Larry's Wife
  56. Major subsystems
  57. Rewriting
  58. Perl is the game