the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

[Matt S Trout]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 03:08:58PM -0500, Zach Vonler wrote:
> [...]
>> I add an additional wrinkle, which is that I usually comment the method
>> with something like "Determine the intersection of two sets" and declare
>> the method as "public List intersection(List a, List b)". It's interesting
>> to see which people take the comment and name as gospel, and which ones
>> approach them suspiciously.
> 
> As far as I can remember of set theory, it *does* determine the intersection
> of two sets, assuming you were daft enough to use an ordered datastructure
> that allows duplicate values as a representation of a set in the first
> place.
> 
> It'd be kind of nice if Perl had sets as a basic datatype, but I guess we've
> already run out of punctuation and have to make do with hashes.

Not quite, but my answer to "how do we speed it up" would be "if possible, use 
this one-line replacement involving Set::Object" :)