Seven Stages of a Perl Programmer

Tom Christiansen posted a set of stages of Perl programmers:
- Novice
- Initiate
- User
- Adept
- Hacker
- Guru
- Wizard
This tutorial is an odd mixture of code and philosophy.
I'll show you the distinguishing features of each stage (as observed by Tom) and will use them to comment on the design or techniques of Perl.
You won't come away a wizard, but you'll know what you need to do in order to become one.

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