<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">6. Re: Roll Call (Ed Dow)<br><br>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. ;-)<br><br>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. <br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "boulder-pm-request@pm.org" <boulder-pm-request@pm.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> boulder-pm@pm.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:43 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9<br> </font> </div> <br>Send Boulder-pm mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm-request@pm.org"
href="mailto:boulder-pm-request@pm.org">boulder-pm-request@pm.org</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm-owner@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm-owner@pm.org">boulder-pm-owner@pm.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Boulder-pm digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Roll call? (<a ymailto="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net" href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a>)<br> 2. Re: Roll call? (Jason Van Slyke)<br> 3. Re: Roll call? (Kate)<br> 4. Re: Roll call? (Brennen Bearnes)<br> 5. Re: Roll call? (Rob Nagler)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:41:14 +0000 (UTC)<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net"
href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:532104170.408808.1345581674630.JavaMail.root@sz0012a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" href="mailto:532104170.408808.1345581674630.JavaMail.root@sz0012a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net">532104170.408808.1345581674630.JavaMail.root@sz0012a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net</a>><br> <br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>(First off, apologies for replying to this so late.) <br><br>Interesting. *Very* interesting! I joined this list in the hopes that lurking here would help me as I tried to work my way through the Camel book. Several years ago, I worked with a guy who was pretty proficient with Perl, was pretty impressed with the cross-platform things he could accomplish,
& decided that I wanted to be able to add those capabilities to my existing system-admin skill set. Unfortunately I haven't yet developed the proficiency that I've wanted to, but hearing that it's definitely still in-demand certainly helps as a motivator. <br><br>With that in mind, I'd be grateful for any pointers to "newb-appropriate" resources where I could work through the rather basic questions. (Probably a safe bet that they'd be a bit annoying to the crowd here...) <br><br>Thanks in advance. <br><br>T. <br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "hideo" <<a ymailto="mailto:hideo@lastamericanempire.com" href="mailto:hideo@lastamericanempire.com">hideo@lastamericanempire.com</a>> <br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a> <br>Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 10:33:27 AM <br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call? <br><br><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jay Hannah < <a
ymailto="mailto:jay@jays.net" href="mailto:jay@jays.net">jay@jays.net</a> > wrote: <br><br><br>Hey! I was near Boulder for 3 weeks visiting my brother a couple weeks back -- I totally forgot there was a Boulder.pm! I did make it out to a very small Denver.pm meeting... <br><br>This list archive has nothing for 2 years. Who all is still out there? <br><br>I'll make sure to hook up with you guys next time I'm pestering relatives in the area. :) <br><br>jhannah <br>Omaha.pm <br><br><br><br><br>Still here, though I'd forgotten I'd was. Perl is still my programming tool of choice though I haven't done too much serious development with it in a while. I must say that it's been pretty difficult to find good Perl experience on the Front Range lately. We've had several open reqs without a legitimate bite for a while. It makes me wonder if it's still viable. <br><br>Zach <br><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Boulder-pm mailing list <br><a
ymailto="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org">Boulder-pm@pm.org</a> <br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/44449c6a/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/44449c6a/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:03:22 -0600<br>From: Jason Van Slyke <<a ymailto="mailto:jason_van_slyke@hotmail.com" href="mailto:jason_van_slyke@hotmail.com">jason_van_slyke@hotmail.com</a>><br>To: Boulder Perl_Mongers <<a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>Message-ID:
<<a ymailto="mailto:SNT117-W2627D039D9CD760656AC8CA7B80@phx.gbl" href="mailto:SNT117-W2627D039D9CD760656AC8CA7B80@phx.gbl">SNT117-W2627D039D9CD760656AC8CA7B80@phx.gbl</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br><br><br>T.Learning Perl is a good book to have on your shelf and to read at bedtime... ;')Jason<br><br><br><br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:41:14 +0000<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net" href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br><br>(First off, apologies for replying to this so late.)<br><br>Interesting. *Very* interesting! I joined this list in the hopes that lurking here would help me as I tried to work my way through the Camel book. Several years ago, I worked with a guy who was pretty proficient with Perl, was pretty impressed with the
cross-platform things he could accomplish, & decided that I wanted to be able to add those capabilities to my existing system-admin skill set. Unfortunately I haven't yet developed the proficiency that I've wanted to, but hearing that it's definitely still in-demand certainly helps as a motivator.<br><br>With that in mind, I'd be grateful for any pointers to "newb-appropriate" resources where I could work through the rather basic questions. (Probably a safe bet that they'd be a bit annoying to the crowd here...)<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>T.<br><br>From: "hideo" <<a ymailto="mailto:hideo@lastamericanempire.com" href="mailto:hideo@lastamericanempire.com">hideo@lastamericanempire.com</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 10:33:27 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jay Hannah
<<a ymailto="mailto:jay@jays.net" href="mailto:jay@jays.net">jay@jays.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hey! I was near Boulder for 3 weeks visiting my brother a couple weeks back -- I totally forgot there was a Boulder.pm! I did make it out to a very small Denver.pm meeting...<br><br><br><br>This list archive has nothing for 2 years. Who all is still out there?<br><br><br><br>I'll make sure to hook up with you guys next time I'm pestering relatives in the area. :)<br><br><br><br>jhannah<br><br>Omaha.pm<br><br><br><br><br>Still here, though I'd forgotten I'd was. Perl is still my programming tool of choice though I haven't done too much serious development with it in a while. I must say that it's been pretty difficult to find good Perl experience on the Front Range lately. We've had several open reqs without a legitimate bite for a while. It makes me wonder if it's still
viable.<br><br><br>Zach<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Boulder-pm mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org">Boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Boulder-pm mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org">Boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/5e27a43a/attachment-0001.html"
target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/5e27a43a/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:54 -0700<br>From: Kate <<a ymailto="mailto:rise@knavery.net" href="mailto:rise@knavery.net">rise@knavery.net</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:67C632850B234535BCD7DB8115059508@knavery.net" href="mailto:67C632850B234535BCD7DB8115059508@knavery.net">67C632850B234535BCD7DB8115059508@knavery.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM, <a ymailto="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net" href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br><br><br>> With that in mind, I'd be grateful for any pointers to "newb-appropriate" resources where I
could work through the rather basic questions. (Probably a safe bet that they'd be a bit annoying to the crowd here...)<br><br><br>Not so much a net resource, but the single most useful book for me in learning Perl was Christiansen & Torkington's "Perl Cookbook". I really like that it gave multiple solutions to just about everything and explained their tradeoffs & how they worked. It encourages copy & paste programming a lot less than just googling code snippets and gave me a much better idea of idiomatic Perl.<br><br>?<br>Kate Lynde<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:15:16 -0600<br>From: Brennen Bearnes <<a ymailto="mailto:bbearnes@gmail.com" href="mailto:bbearnes@gmail.com">bbearnes@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll
call?<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAJ+<a ymailto="mailto:Qbrp3ZKsJThACNEMK_6Rw3UMP58om03YMEyoL7S4kBpd7gg@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:Qbrp3ZKsJThACNEMK_6Rw3UMP58om03YMEyoL7S4kBpd7gg@mail.gmail.com">Qbrp3ZKsJThACNEMK_6Rw3UMP58om03YMEyoL7S4kBpd7gg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Kate <<a ymailto="mailto:rise@knavery.net" href="mailto:rise@knavery.net">rise@knavery.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Not so much a net resource, but the single most useful book for me in<br>> learning Perl was Christiansen & Torkington's "Perl Cookbook". I really<br>> like that it gave multiple solutions to just about everything and explained<br>> their tradeoffs & how they worked. It encourages copy & paste programming a<br>> lot less than just googling code snippets and gave me a much better idea of<br>> idiomatic Perl.<br>><br><br>I'll second
this one. Easily one of my favorite programming texts in<br>general.<br><br>-- Brennen<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/b0c9764e/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boulder-pm/attachments/20120821/b0c9764e/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:43:02 -0600<br>From: Rob Nagler <<a ymailto="mailto:nagler@bivio.biz" href="mailto:nagler@bivio.biz">nagler@bivio.biz</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAJB=V03DwBbO55iqCXAhYq49=<a ymailto="mailto:UW_EmVabGPxHt-KGTH2KFPObg@mail.gmail.com"
href="mailto:UW_EmVabGPxHt-KGTH2KFPObg@mail.gmail.com">UW_EmVabGPxHt-KGTH2KFPObg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>[old man mode] When I wanted to learn perl, the only option was "man<br>perl". It was about 60 pages of troff. :) Being an old sed/awk/sh<br>hack helped, of course.<br><br>ROFL.<br><br>Rob<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Subject: Digest Footer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Boulder-pm mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org">Boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>End of Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9<br>*****************************************<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>