Perl Skills Test

[Piers Cawley]

On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Jones, Christopher <c.jones at ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On 22 September 2011 14:14, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Interesting question from a training client:
>>
>> "Do you know of a general Perl skills test (on-line or paper) that we
could
>> give to our Perl developers before you turn up.
>
> At an interview with Auntie a few years ago, they gave me a Perl script
and asked me to highlight all the problems/errors in it. Not sure if they
were flattering me, but I found quite a few they didn't seem to be aware
of......

I've been on the other side of that interview. I was astonished by how bad
the script was.