Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving
| Hacks 84-101 What exactly is a Perl guru? Is it someone who's programmed Perl for years and years? Is it someone with a dozen modules on the CPAN? Is it someone with patches in the core or her name in the Preface.[1] [1] Actually, that might be a good sign! Perhaps instead a guru is someone who knows something that most people never knew existed. A real guru can apply that knowledge productively and appropriately to solve a difficult problem with apparent ease. Want to be a Perl guru? Here's some of the magic you may never have suspected. Absorb these secrets. Recognize the situations where you can apply them. Then you too will be a guru. |