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Mark/gizmo,<br>
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Perl weekly challenge looks great! Thanks for sharing. Plenty to keep busy with now.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Mark Senn <mark@purdue.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:25:37 PM<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">| Mark,<br>
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| Ah great to hear! Can't find many local folks who use Perl these days<br>
| and online info isn't always the greatest either.<br>
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| I've only ever used Perl 5 and mainly one-liners on *nix<br>
| systems. Recently decided to start putting more effort into programming<br>
| in general and wanted to use Perl as a nice mix between Bash and<br>
| C. Seemed to be what a lot of folks were comparing Perl to (again online<br>
| inform so forgive me if that's a bad analogy).<br>
| <br>
| Any suggestions on practice problems or challenges worth working on? I<br>
| like the "solve problems relevant to you" mentality but sometimes have<br>
| trouble coming up with my own challenges.<br>
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| Rob<br>
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I agree that Perl is a nice mix of Bash and C. I only write<br>
bash functions for simple shell things. For programming in general,<br>
and not just shell things, I recommend using Perl (or better yet,<br>
Raku, formerly known as Perl 6).<br>
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For problems I recommend<br>
<a href="https://perlweeklychallenge.org/">https://perlweeklychallenge.org/</a><br>
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Think about things you can automate in your workflow and implement them<br>
if you have time.<br>
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Write a program to sum the numbers 1 to n in an efficient way.<br>
Clue, for n = 100: 1+100 = 101, 2+99 = 101, ... .<br>
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Write a program to evaluate a perl expression and print the answer.<br>
Clue: eval statement. Build a macro processor that can be extended<br>
arbitrarily with Perl.<br>
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-mark<br>
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