[Mastering-perl] Re: Welcome to the "Mastering-perl" mailing list

[Anthony R. J. Ball]

  I agree they are useful to know, but I would argue they belong at the
intermediate or almost beginning level (at least the common ones). Not
only will it help new programmers hit their stride in Perl, but it would
help them enormously in reading other programmer's code.

> As I mentioned in your weblog; I think learning the Perl Idioms[tm]  
> is enormously valuable.  (At least it was to me).
> 
> Learning about this or that module is nice, but much easier to pick  
> up from the available documentation.
> 
> On the other hand, learning to put all the words into various  
> effective expressions ...
> 
> 
>  - ask
> 
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