SPUG: The ABC-s of Perl

[Ben Burnett]

$.02

1) CPAN - huge community and code base
2) perldoc
3) Open Source
4) Reg Exp
5) Hashes
6) References
7) Multiplatform
8) Variable Strictness
9) tmtowtdi
10) SPUG!

A) advocacy(without zeal)
auto-vivification
@ARGV
atomicity
ActiveState

B) building modules
Bundle::foo
\b (word boundary)

C) CPAN
camel
&caller()

D) Documented
use diagnostics;

E) perl -e
each

F) file test operators
file handles
flexible

G) globbing
garbage collection
...

J) jAph(humility)
K) kludge
keys

L) llama
LWP
__LINE__
Larry
lvalues

M) mod_perl
MS/DOS, Macintosh (Multiplatform)

N) namespaces (how are modules named)
nurturing newbies
Natural Language Parsing
no(keyword)
...

Q) Quine(self referential)
quibble(don't. because tmtowtdi)
qw() q() qq()
quoting(how perl handles various types)
...

T) taint mode 
V) version history
versatile
vivification(auto)
...

X) -x -X (file test)
/x(modifier for pattern matching)
perl -x

Y) YAPC
Y2K compatible :)
y///

Z) -z(file test)
\Z (string boundary for pattern matching)
Perl and its following are often praised by open source
advocates for grokking the zeitgeist of current programming
culture.

-Ben

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