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Can't copy n' paste the code here because I get the message: "Try not to use so many 'junky' words"! So, this is how Slashdot behaves to the language that brought it to life. Anyway,you can find the Perl script here.

Try http://perlmonks.com/ if you want to give it another go. It's a great resource.

As long as you make an effort to ask a decent question (details about what you're doing and what's not working) as opposed to "I tried to install a network package and it no go.." and at least a cursory attempt at searching for an answer and I can almost assure you that someone will make an attempt to help you out.

It's one of the best technical communities I've ever found. I wouldn't say it's perfect, but it's as close as I've seen any community site come.

There's a handful of sites that I visit religiously. They all fill in one void and fill it well.

For Perl, perlmonks.com,
for electronics, bit-tech.net,
for my car, 2gstratus.org,
for car-pc stuff, mp3car.com,
for tech news, /.

These are all functionally equivalent in their respective domains.

No if I could find a comparable linux and medical communities, I'd be all set :)

I believe he is. At least, the picture on his blog matches the picture over at perlmonks.

Since you are posting Stunnix Perl-Obfus ads on slashdot I think I should post a link on its "review".

There are several sites that I look at regularly for different programming things.

When I did windows development Code Project was a lifesaver, nowadays that's been replaced by the venerable Perl Monk

For online books I'd browse through The Assayer, and for zany reference nothing beats How Much Is Inside .. Stuff!

I'm also curious about how you'd put this on a resume. Add "And I post on perlmonks.com under the name camelfucker" to the contact section? Add your XP or Karma to qualifications? If I was an HR Manager and wasn't familiar with Slashcode and the sites that run it, it would be far too easy to think it was a high score. Seems to me that unless the board you reference is very specific to your profession, you should keep it to yourself.

Now its been mentioned on /. that quite little backwater of perl lovers is in danger ;)

I think the reason people aren't getting excited about Parrot is that it hasn't had any significant progress.

But Perl, for instance, considers "12" and 12 to be pretty much equivalent.

Bugzilla is way far from being the best bug tracking software. For example just compare it featureset with RT.

I learned perl using 5.0.0.5, or somesuch. I learned using version 2 of the Perl Book.

It seems to be the case that the perl language has actually evolved a bit since 5. I am continually finding out about "new" features in Perl that i were not aware were there (invariably, the only ones that make a difference to me are the extentions to the Regexp system: there seems to be a whole class of (?X) operators that are not in my copy of the perl book).

Is there anywhere that summarizes the various changes to perl since version 5? there are the perldoc perldelta documents (here is the perldelta document for 5.8.0). However, these are complete, technical changelogs, and cover everything from language changes to small inconsistency smoothings to changes to obscure library functions to bugfixes in internal perl functions. Moreover, they do an even poorer job of explaining the consequences to the coder of things like (?>) than the perldocs :) It seems it would be a useful community project if someone were to take these changes and compile them into a sorted by type document-- I.E., all grammar changes, then all regexp changes, then library functions, etc., with sample code where germane.

Really, now that i think about it, i guess what i would like is a summary of what they've done to the regexps since version 5.0 :)

If no such document exists, maybe someone can write one and post it on PerlMonks :)

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Oh, c'mon. You can code badly in any language.

Given Damian's reputation, the fact that the Perl community is raising money to get him to focus on Perl, and the fact that he seems to know what he's doing, wouldn't you think that the fact he chooses to work with Perl says something potentially interesting about the language?

When someone I respect praises (or consistently uses) a tool that I don't like, I try to question my opinion and find out what they know that I don't.

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