Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

[David Alban]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Chris Jack <chris_jack at msn.com> wrote:
> 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly voluminous in your answer as you are > able.
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>  have been asked this in more interviews that I care to recall and generally interviewers seem to be looking > for 3 (scalar, list, and hash) but code, filehandle, and format are also high level types.

i would have said only two:  scalar and list, since arrays and hashes
are both lists.

> 11) Write a limeric about Perl. Bonus mark for making it perl parseable.
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> There was a perl hack from Nantucket,
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> Who wrote one-line scripts by the bucket,
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> He tried to write verse,
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> But twas longer and worse,
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> Especially since he didn't know any swear words.

nice!

p.s.  damn.  i really thought you'd tell us when perl 6 was going to
be available.

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