[Boulder.pm] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9
Walter Pienciak
wpiencia at thunderdome.ieee.org
Wed Aug 22 09:05:47 PDT 2012
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:01:41AM -0700, Ed Dow wrote:
> 6. Re: Roll Call (Ed Dow)
>
> Foo... always glad to have a fellow tech interested in Perl, no matter how "noobish" the questions. Throw some out here. Who knows you might ask something that hasn't been discussed in a while or maybe never. ;-)
>
> Here's a brain tickler for everyone.... write a quine (a program that outputs itself exactly) in Perl. This was a question I was asked in a recent interview. In my opinion, completely unfair and technically usless but everything is fair game in the interviewing process.
I'm a cheater:
#!/usr/bin/perl
system("cat $0");
Walter
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