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Mark,<br>
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Ah great to hear! Can't find many local folks who use Perl these days and online info isn't always the greatest either.
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I've only ever used Perl 5 and mainly one-liners on *nix systems. Recently decided to start putting more effort into programming in general and wanted to use Perl as a nice mix between Bash and C. Seemed to be what a lot of folks were comparing Perl to (again
online inform so forgive me if that's a bad analogy). <br>
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Any suggestions on practice problems or challenges worth working on? I like the "solve problems relevant to you" mentality but sometimes have trouble coming up with my own challenges.<br>
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Rob<span id="ms-outlook-android-cursor"></span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mark Senn <mark@ecn.purdue.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 15, 2020 9:55:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Turner, Howard Robert <turne349@purdue.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> purdue-pm@pm.org <purdue-pm@pm.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Purdue-pm] List activity</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Rob Turner <turne349@purdue.edu> wrote on 12:52+00:<br>
| Greetings everyone,<br>
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| Recently found out Purdue had a Perl mailing list. I haven't seen any<br>
| activity thus far so thought I'd send out a message to see if the list<br>
| is even active anymore?<br>
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| Rob<br>
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Hi Rob,<br>
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Yep, we're active---just not a lot of traffic. I use Perl 5 and Raku<br>
(previously known as Perl 6) every day at my job at the Engineering<br>
Computer Network. Use Raku more than any other language for general<br>
programming---use Mathematica for technical programming when the math,<br>
graphics, or interfacing with curated data is easier in Mathematica than<br>
Raku.<br>
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-mark<br>
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