[Boulder.pm] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9

Ed Dow eddow1976 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 22 09:01:41 PDT 2012 

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.  




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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Roll call? (foo7775 at comcast.net)
   2. Re: Roll call? (Jason Van Slyke)
   3. Re: Roll call? (Kate)
   4. Re: Roll call? (Brennen Bearnes)
   5. Re: Roll call? (Rob Nagler)


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(First off, apologies for replying to this so late.) 

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. 

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...) 

Thanks in advance. 

T. 

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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jay Hannah < jay at jays.net > wrote: 


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... 

This list archive has nothing for 2 years. Who all is still out there? 

I'll make sure to hook up with you guys next time I'm pestering relatives in the area. :) 

jhannah 
Omaha.pm 




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. 

Zach 

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T.Learning Perl is a good book to have on your shelf and to read at bedtime... ;')Jason



Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:41:14 +0000
From: foo7775 at comcast.net
To: boulder-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?

(First off, apologies for replying to this so late.)

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.

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...)

Thanks in advance.

T.

From: "hideo" <hideo at lastamericanempire.com>
To: boulder-pm at pm.org
Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 10:33:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?



On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:

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...



This list archive has nothing for 2 years. Who all is still out there?



I'll make sure to hook up with you guys next time I'm pestering relatives in the area.  :)



jhannah

Omaha.pm




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.


Zach


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On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM, foo7775 at comcast.net wrote:


> 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...)


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.

?
Kate Lynde






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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:15:16 -0600
From: Brennen Bearnes <bbearnes at gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Kate <rise at knavery.net> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I'll second this one.  Easily one of my favorite programming texts in
general.

-- Brennen
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:43:02 -0600
From: Rob Nagler <nagler at bivio.biz>
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[old man mode] When I wanted to learn perl, the only option was "man
perl".  It was about 60 pages of troff. :)  Being an old sed/awk/sh
hack helped, of course.

ROFL.

Rob


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