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Re: Last night's meeting

David L. Nicol
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:41:11 -0700

> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> 
> I would suggest workshops focused on some practical workplace topic with
> a parallel emphasis on some specific Perl fundamentals. A single topic
> might be reusable to cover various perl fundamentals...
> 
> For example creating a:
> o  Win32 Network Auditing tool with an emphasis on data structures/refs
> o  Anonymous micropayment system with emphasis on security ;)
> o  Web Template Model-View-Controller with emphasis on CGI.pm
> o  Web<->database shopping cart using DBI

These things aren't fundamentals though, they're "capstone achievements."
Fundamentals are things like why

        ($fortune) = `fortune`;

only gets you the first line of the phrase.