Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

[Rallias UberNerd]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:24:12 -0600, Chris Jack <chris_jack at msn.com> wrote:

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> Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular, I thought I'd do another one. I've changed the mix of questions based on what people submitted answers to last year - it also arguably a little more educational this time around.
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> Any feedback about the quiz, either private or public is welcome. Apologies if any of it doesn't come out well formatted - it all looked fine before I hit send.
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> 1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
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> my %a = (3,2,1,0);
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> for my $b (sort values %a) {
>     $b += 4;
> }
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> print $a{1} . "\n";
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umm... 1

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> 2) If you received a perl mongers award for contributions to the Perl
> community, what colour/type of camel would the award be?
>
Black and white, arabian
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> 3) What is Perl XS? What does XS stand for?
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> 4) Based on your answer to the previous question, what do you conclude about
> Perl programmers spelling ability?
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Very terrible
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> 5) Write a short perl program that has a memory leak. Bonus mark for one line
> solutions. Second bonus mark for the shortest program.
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sub a(){a()}
	
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> 6) What is the name of the official Soft Toy Camel of the London Perl Mongers?
> Bonus mark if you own one.
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> 7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument
> and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
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> Restrictions: the perl line should be a regular expression.
> You are allowed to use the following functions/operators "x", "-", "length",
> "print" plus any of the usual regular expression bestiary.
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> Hint: Consider converting the number to unary.
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> 8) According to amazon.co.uk, what is the best selling Perl book so far in 2009?
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You guys use amazon.co.uk? What about amazon.com?
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> 9) What is the youtube.com link for the perl v other languages videos
> discussed on this list, and also the bubble sort video?
>
I don't give a rat. How often do you guys use .com domains
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> 10) What is the highest value of X that is a currently available, stable
> production release of perl 5.X?
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6
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> 11) Think of a witty and/or interesting Perl Christmas quiz question and
> answer it.
>
Make your computer ask you a dumb question.

Main()

sub Main(){
	<STDOUT> = "AM I STUPID? I AM A COMPUTER AFTER ALL!"
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