A Perl Adept...
Write JAPHs to impress their friends and annoy their coworkers.
Begins all programs with use strict.
Thinks Perl should just be Perl.
Has taken enough advantage of cryptocontext to annoy others.
Knows how to create records and objects with hash refs.
Uses syscall to get at undocumented operating system calls.
Curses the flexibility of the Perl object system.
Uses
/e
in substitutes.
Has begun to wonder what typeglobs are for.
Has written their own modules in Perl.
Begins to look at all data in terms of regular expressions.
Understands why regexes can't match nested data.
Rewrites minor utilities in Perl.
Forward to
use strict
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